Example sentences of "on the same period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our average daily sale of 532,370 from May to October was up almost 13 per cent on the same period for last year . |
| 2 | Mobil 's net earnings rose to $710m , up by 78% on the same period of 1990 . |
| 3 | 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% ) . |
| 4 | Boosted by lower prices , Sun 's total sales in the nine months to March 31st were , at $1.05 billion , 16.5% up on the same period of the previous fiscal year . |
| 5 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 6 | For the first nine months , pre-tax profits were £703m , representing a 21 per cent fall on the same period in 1990 , while turnover fell 3.8 per cent to £9442m . |
| 7 | In the financial period from February 1 to the end of June fares are up by over 30 per cent on the same period in 1991 . |
| 8 | In Britain , around £1.2 billion ( $1.9 billion ) is likely to be raised through IPOs in the second quarter , well up on the same period in 1992 . |
| 9 | 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% . |
| 10 | More than 1,750,000 crimes were reported to the Interior Ministry during January-September 1989 ( with 58 per cent committed by 14-29-year-olds ) — an increase of one-third on the same period in 1988 [ see p. 36855 ] ; by the year-end the figure was 2,500,000 , with one-third of cases unsolved . |
| 11 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 12 | Following these measures in the first two months of 1990 the hard-currency current-account deficit totalled $23,000 million , an improvement on the same period in 1989 , and external debt fell by $136,000,000 . |
| 13 | Output during the first 6 months of 1991 was down 22.6 per cent on the same period in 1990 . |
| 14 | 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 . |