Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the same period " in BNC.
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1 | In the first eight months of the year they were 36pc above the same period in 1992 . |
2 | BP reported a first half net loss of £717m compared with a net profit of £834m in the same period last year . |
3 | So were the compositions demanded for grants and privileges , particularly by James IV and V. In the same period , royal rents were increased as the crown converted its grants of land to feuferme , hereditary tenure for which its tenants paid heavily . |
4 | Labour 's spend was around £750,000 for the same period , while the Liberal Democrats spent about £175,000 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | This compares with $46.2m in the same period of 1991 , of which $11.5m was in the final quarter . |
7 | Meanwhile , Microsoft 's Excel , one of the first Windows-based spreadsheets , has more than doubled its market share to 42% in the same period . |
8 | Hydro reported that net profits in the third quarter of 1991 were NKr 39m ( £1 = NKr 11 ) , compared with NKr 101.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
9 | Applied Biosystems turned in net profits of $900 000m for the six months ended 27 December 1991 , compared to a net loss of £5.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
10 | The underwriting agent reported a 30pc fall for the six months to March 31 , dropping to £2.6m from £3.7m in the same period last year . |
11 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
12 | Control Techniques , one of Wales ' home-grown success stories , turned in pre-tax profits of £3.7m to March , a leap of £2.1m on the same period in 1992 . |
13 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
14 | Today 's pre-tax profits for the nine months to September 30 were up by 56% to £1.03bn from £657m in the same period last year . |
15 | The enlarged Group made £1,371,000 profit before tax in the six months compared to £1,886,000 in the same period last year . |
16 | Q3 profit of $0.6 compared with a loss of $21.5m in the same period last time and produced a deficit down sharply from $$53.4m to $23.1m . |
17 | Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year . |
18 | Earnings per share are up er , more than forty percent over the same period last year and when the E P S is adjusted to take account of the non-operating items , the figure has increased by nearly ninety percent . |
19 | Cider is bucking the national trend … beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period . |
20 | Half year pre-tax profits have zoomed ahead by 92% to almost £27m , a much healtheir performance than expected and better than Racal 's £23.1m for the same period . |
21 | Investing instead in a similarly-sized firm that was already traded in the market generated , on average , a profit of 30% over the same period . |
22 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
23 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
24 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
25 | The news will involve no redundancies : Ms Rebuck effected a swingeing cost-cutting ( and job-cutting ) exercise at Random House last year , and the company is currently trading well , with sales in the first quarter of 1993 up by 15% on the same period in 1992 , despite ( or because of ) a reduction in new trade titles of 35% . |
26 | Losses before tax have been cut to $1.3m ( £800,000 ) for the six months to 30 June , compared with $15.1m in the same period last year , on sales up 14 per cent at $60.2m . |
27 | Digital Equipment Corp 's Hungarian subsidiary reported sales of $30m in its financial year to October 1992 , up from $16m in the same period of 1991 . |
28 | Turnover increased from £81.6m to £106.1m in the same period . |
29 | Per capita income grew from $1,592 to $5,200 during the same period . |
30 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |