Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] the same period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparing chloride concentration with rainfall at St Louis and water flow in the Senegal River over the same period has displayed the signature of droughts ( in the 1970s , 1940s and 1910s ) and of intervening periods of higher rainfall and river flow . |
| 2 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 3 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 4 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 5 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
| 6 | Arthur Browning , the son of Stamford architect Edward Browning , who was at the school in the 1870's , reports that ‘ The initiation of the new boys kissing the face of the ‘ Old Man' ’ , which forms the keystone of the church door , was seldom practised ’ and J. H. Boam of the same period recalled that the ceremony was only undertaken if a pupil had done anything to dishonour the school . |
| 7 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 8 | The Daily Express , in contrast , had been the authentic voice of middle class England in the same period . |
| 9 | This is all the more apparent when the Chandos stones are compared with three linked novels — Huntingtower , Castle Gay and The House of the Four Wind — in which John Buchan at the same period explored the code of honour through the fortunes of Saskia , a distressed maiden , and the dynastic troubles of the fictitious kingdom of Evallonia . |