Example sentences of "cent [prep] the [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 2 | The rate of interest fixed by the Commissioners on Landed Securities ( which was fixed at 11 ½ per cent for the six months from and after Martinmas 1974 and which will continue at that rate for the six months from and after Whitsunday 1975 ) . |
| 3 | Resort Hotels announced a pre-tax profit increase of 27 per cent for the six months to 31 October 1991 , while the Rank Organisation 's pre-tax profits slumped 20 per cent from £312 million in 1990 to £250.5 million in 1991 . |
| 4 | Reed International , changing its year-end to conform with Elsevier 's , saw pre-tax profits rise 10 per cent for the nine months to December to £137.1 million . |
| 5 | ’ results , plus a strong performance from plantations , helped boost 's profits by 19 per cent for the 12 months to £85 million compared with £71.2 million the previous year . |
| 6 | Heavy commitments in the social security budget had driven government finances deeply into deficit , and industrial production had slumped as interest rates rose ; manufacturing output was estimated to have fallen by 6 per cent in the eight months to August , and Sweden 's normally low unemployment rate had climbed from 1.5 per cent in January 1990 to more than 3 per cent . |
| 7 | Overseas business accounted for 55 per cent of last year 's orders , rising to 75 per cent in the early months of the current year . |
| 8 | The yen had fallen by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , and by 25 per cent in the twelve months since March 1989 . |
| 9 | With no volume gains and falling prices , like-for-like sales in shoes fell back by 1.5 per cent in the six months to 31 July . |
| 10 | The number of store cards rose by 1.4 per cent in the six months to September 1989 . |
| 11 | International waste management company Attwoods pushed profits ahead more than 11 per cent in the six months to January after a good performance from key sectors of its US business . |
| 12 | A return of £21.9 million on its broking activities allowed the group to boost pre-tax profits by 12 per cent in the six months to 31 December , from £30 million at halfway in 1991 to £34 million . |
| 13 | On the export side the volume of cars shot up 27 per cent in the three months to November , compared with the previous three months though other consumer , intermediate and capital goods showed much more modest increases of 5.5 per cent , 4 per cent and 9 per cent , respectively . |
| 14 | Real gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell by 1.6 per cent in the three months to September , following a fall of 0.4 per cent in the June quarter . |
| 15 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 16 | The average rise recorded in the quarter was 3.6 per cent , compared with 4 per cent in the three months to last October , said a Labour Research survey . |
| 17 | The main issues of the campaign had been the continuing high level of inflation ( at 67 per cent in the 12 months to October ) , the autocratic style of President Özal and the situation in Kurdish-populated south-east Turkey . |
| 18 | With the financial markets showing some evidence of recovery , the government announced the Aug. 28 emergency package , amounting to 10,700,000 million yen ( 2.3 per cent of gross national product ) , which , it estimated , would increase economic growth by 2.4 per cent in the 12 months from October . |
| 19 | Dundee-based Alliance — one of the UK 's largest general trusts , with assets topping £900 million — saw net asset value per share increase by 15.6 per cent in the 12 months to 31 December , 1992 . |
| 20 | The second , by Smith found a small price fall of 1.4 per cent in the 2 months before the issue which was followed by a compensating rise in the 2 months after the issue . |
| 21 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 22 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 23 | According to TNT station manager Rhys Roberts , the number of outbound consignments in the latter half of 1992 were up to 70 per cent on the same months in 1991 , with inbound traffic up by 30 per cent . |