However, a significant rise in housebreaking was recorded - up 27%, or 88 more cases - compared with the previous period.
And, like the previous period before 1991, Iraqi officials again assured the U.N. that they were hiding no weapons of mass destruction.
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That was a reduction of around 15% compared with the previous period.
The equity ratio is also scheduled to remain in the same range as for the previous period of 25 to 35 percent.
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Mitsubishi UFJ took JPY 8.4 billion and MitsuiSumitomo JPY 7.2 billion fewer provisions than in the previous period, thus boosting current period relative performance.
In 2008-2009, UNESCO condemned the murder of 125 journalists, a tally comparable to the previous period - 2006-2007 - when the Organization had reported 122 murders.
In the past three months, they saw close to 10, 000 new Facebook fans, more than 25% of their total, and 1, 800 new Twitter followers, a 256% increase from the previous period.
Initially, as U.S. soldiers pushed into Baghdad neighborhoods they had not previously occupied, violence rose, and that spring more U.S. soldiers and marines died in combat than during any previous period of the war.
Notably, UBS churned out nearly three-times the revenues it did from equity trading this quarter than it did in Q2 2011, whereas its debt trading revenues remained at essentially the same level as that over the previous period.
He said he had always viewed the tax rate as "temporary" and hadn't wanted to introduce it, but that he thought it was right that people who had done well in the previous period of growth "should bear their fair share".
To some extent the amount that was paid over in this accounting period is determined by the profits that were made in the previous accounting period.
The longest previous such period was 61 days, in 1985, according to Mr. Ranter.
Companies' expectations about turnover over the next six months were also slightly higher than the previous survey period.
For example, in the past 5 years alone, patent filings from the PRC have increased five-fold compared with the previous 5 year period.
Schools typically receive just two days' notice of an inspection rather than the previous long notice period of six to ten weeks, which led to anxiety among teaching staff.
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That's a drop of 27.5% on the previous quarter and a 24.5% decrease on the same period in the previous year.
There were 135 killings in 2010-11 compared with 120 in the previous 12-month period.
What's more, Alcatel's share price outperformed Lucent's over the previous 52-week period, as indicated in your table.
In the final quarter of 2012, the British economy shrank 0.3 percent from the previous three-month period.
That is 17% up on the same period the previous year, and 71% more than 2009's corresponding months.
The daily circulation of the Post surpassed the News for the first time during the previous six-month period.
The General Administration of Customs said export growth slowed to 10 percent from the previous two-month period's 23.6 percent.
As a whole, the global PC market saw shipments fall 0.2%, compared with the same period the previous year.
Export growth slowed to 10 percent from the previous two-month period's 23.6 percent.
Applications for homelessness assistance stood at 10, 269 which was down from 11, 604 on the same period the previous year.
The group's profit for the quarter somewhat beat market expectations, and represents a rebound from a sizeable loss in the previous three-month period.
Between 2005 and 2010, 1.4 million Mexicans migrated north of the border, fewer than half as many as in the previous five-year period.
Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the eurozone economy shrank by 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 from the previous three-month period.
However, consumer spending was the main driver for growth and picked up 2.9% in first quarter, up from a 2.1% rise in the previous three-month period.
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