Example sentences of "cent [prep] the [det] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | If death rates declined by 10 per cent during the same period ( a more realistic assumption ) then the growth rate would be only 0.02 per cent higher per annum . |
| 2 | showed that the number of full-time male employees of local authorities increased by only 13 per cent during the critical period of 1964–74 while the number of part-time women in local authority employment rose by 86 per cent during the same period . |
| 3 | It estimated that total earning losses from Jan. 17 to Feb. 10 were more than US$130,500,000 and that exports had dropped by 95 per cent during the same period . |
| 4 | There were 1,019 murders in the first seven months of 1989 , 1 per cent below the same period last year , which eventually reached a record 1,896 . |
| 5 | Sales for the first nine months of the year , at 1,698,221 , are now 11.52 per cent behind the same period last year . |
| 6 | Retail credit demand has jumped two per cent above the same period last year . |
| 7 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 8 | Old master paintings had risen by 266 per cent in the same period , 19th century paintings by 254 , Chinese ceramics by 204 , English silver by 188 , continental furniture by 169 . |
| 9 | Mintel the consumer trend watchers claim that consumer spending on DIY and garden products has gone up by 96 per cent between 1983 and 1989 ; while spending on furniture and furnishings has increased by 52 per cent in the same period . |
| 10 | But the bill for nurses ' and midwives ' pay rose by just 60 PER CENT in the same period . |
| 11 | The factory labour force fell by 16.6 per cent in the same period after the main recession , because the growth of productivity outstripped that of output , which was only 29.5 per cent . |
| 12 | Stock market prices in West Germany rose by 3.5 per cent in the same period . |
| 13 | The current-account deficit , forecast at 3.75 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) for the year , would rise to 4.25 per cent , and inflation from an anticipated 1.5 per cent to 4 per cent in the same period . |
| 14 | Although the total retail trading area is unchanged at the period end there are in fact two different underlying elements new footage has been laid down in France but this has been off set by a net reduction in the retail trading area in the U K. The sales per square foot which excludes retail sales and is based on the waiting average trading area shows an increase of seven point two percent A low margin of fifty five point six per cent was down from fifty eight point five per cent in the same period last this , this was mainly due to a drop in in-house manufacturing participation and adverse exchange rates . |
| 15 | The Thames Valley went up by by thirty six per cent in the same period . |
| 16 | Even the number of craft workers has risen from 10.5 per cent to 13.9 per cent over the same period ( 1974 , 427 ) . |
| 17 | As they told MPs , they had found that 34 per cent of mothers interviewed in their survey had failed to receive any increase in their housekeeping allowance in the previous year , while prices had risen 7 per cent over the same period ( HOC , 1973 , Vol . |
| 18 | The percentage of people aged 65 and over living alone has increased from 10 per cent in 1945 to 36 per cent in 1985 , while the percentage of those living with others has decreased from 60 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period . |
| 19 | For example , Japan recorded decreases in overall stroke mortality for both men and women of about 50 per cent between 1972 and 1982 ; in England and Wales the decrease was about 35 per cent over the same period ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) . |
| 20 | For those aged 75 + the increase in discharges was 46 per cent over the same period ( average annual increase of 2.7 per cent ) ( Bosanquet and Gray 1979 ) . |
| 21 | The proportion of unmarried mothers living with their parents declined from 49 per cent in 1973–5 to 30 per cent in 1983–4 , with a corresponding increase in those living in their own home from 36 to 59 per cent over the same period . |
| 22 | Local authority employment increased by 2.5 per cent over the same period , despite a reduction in refuse collection and disposal , the main field till then of tendering to private-sector firms ; ‘ although most of these firms claim to have a national presence , the great bulk of their work is in the South East and coverage of other areas is often patchy ’ ( Le Grand and Robinson , 1984 , 60 ) . |
| 23 | The annualized inflation rate for the first nine months of 1989 was 5.1 per cent compared with 4 per cent over the same period in 1988 . |
| 24 | Although passengers are returning to the air — numbers carried by BA rose 7.3 per cent to 6.18 million in the quarter — the increase is not matching the rise in BA 's capacity , which jumped 11 per cent over the same period . |
| 25 | Our average daily sale of 532,370 from May to October was up almost 13 per cent on the same period for last year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Output during the first 6 months of 1991 was down 22.6 per cent on the same period in 1990 . |
| 29 | Finally , I have to report that sales in France have increased by thirty per cent with like for like performance of six per cent on the same period last year . |
| 30 | The attacks come as figures for one police authority show rapes and other sexual assaults increasing by more than ten per cent on the same period last year . |