Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] period a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment capital group 3i has made new investments worth £275m in the six months up to March , nearly 90pc more than the figure for the corresponding period a year ago . |
| 2 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 3 | During the preparatory period a combination of purgation and rectal washouts was performed until the bowel was considered ‘ clear ’ of gross faecal residue . |
| 4 | If these ten poorest readers had been selected for remedial teaching during the six-month period a ( probably ) spurious improvement in spelling would be inferred . |
| 5 | During the same period a Mr. Bowes & Co. paid £75 in 1762 and £129 in 1766 , although there is no indication who Bowes , in fact , was . |
| 6 | During the same period a much less exclusively analytical approach was being developed by an enterprising young couple , David and Jane Shields , who based their tiny ecological engineering company , Living Water , at Edinburgh University . |
| 7 | Leading from a Neil Vasey goal at the break , Aycliffe found Usworth always dangerous until in a five-minute spell midway through the second period a mix-up in the home defence allowed Stuart Howson in to score with Kevin Dinning notching their third shortly afterwards . |
| 8 | In the final year of the transitional period a repeat referendum to confirm the decision to secede might be held on the initiative of the republic 's Supreme Soviet or of 10 per cent of its permanent Soviet residents . |
| 9 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the first half of 1991 , company insolvencies reached 10,833 ( 4.0 per cent of the total number of companies registered at Companies House ) compared with 6,549 ( 2.7 per cent ) in the equivalent period a year earlier . |
| 12 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 13 | This is interesting , because we know that even in the post-exilic period a considerable proportion of the Jews was for all practical purposes polytheistic . |
| 14 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |
| 15 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 16 | In the same period a man with seventeen years of experience as apprentice and officer in tankers , passenger- and tramp steamers all over the world was at the height of a career as a popular author of tales which bore the legend ‘ a story for boys ’ on title-pages as well as on dust-jackets . |
| 17 | In August to October sales were 0.25 per cent lower than in the previous three months ( after seasonal adjustment ) and 0.25 per cent lower than in the same period a year earlier . |
| 18 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |
| 19 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 20 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
| 21 | The number of businesses going to the wall was 21pc higher than the previous quarter and 20pc up on the same period a year ago , underlining the renewed strength of recession since the spring . |
| 22 | The number of businesses going to the wall was 21% higher than the previous quarter and 20% up on the same period a year ago , underlining the renewed strength of recession since the spring . |
| 23 | While teachers command social respect in Nicaragua they are not near the top of the salary league — for example , at the same period a surgeon would receive about US$40 a month and a miner about US$80 . |