Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the same period [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 2 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 3 | The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year . |
| 4 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 5 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |