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.
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.
Companies' expectations about turnover over the next six months were also slightly higher than the previous survey period.
As a whole, the global PC market saw shipments fall 0.2%, compared with the same period the previous year.
That return to growth during the third quarter of 2012 also outstripped the performance in the same period the previous year, when the economy grew by 0.4%.
Sales of the US firm's notebook computers and other mobile devices were down by 10% over the three months to 4 May, compared with the same period the previous year.
This referred to the fact that in the half-year from April-September 2004 the number of reported MRSA cases in England fell to 3, 519, compared with 3, 744 for the same period the previous year.
Despite positive reviews, last year's flagship phone, the HTC One X, struggled to sell, and the company's net profit during the last three months of 2012 plummeted by more than 90% compared to the same period the previous year.
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Due in large part to the popularity of new products such as CINEMA SCREEN 3D Smart TV in the Korean market and improvements in supply chain management, operating profit nearly doubled to 217 billion (USD 191.9 million) from the same period the previous year.
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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.
The stock rose modestly at the end of last week after the company said second-quarter diamond production at its Diavik mine increased as compared to the same period in the previous year.
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If this test is not met then the judgment of a lower court is accepted as final Together these measures have cut the number of cases distributed to the tribunal's members between April last year and March this year to a mere 56, 500, compared with 97, 400 in the same period of the previous year.
During the federal fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, the number of bankruptcy filings fell nearly 38 percent from the previous 12-month period, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Why did I reach this conclusion, particularly in light of the fact that previous amendments to the recognition period had all been made on a retroactive basis?
While the government has not provided comparative figures for the April-December period of the previous financial year, it has estimated that for the full year ended March 31, 2012, Iran supplied 18.11 million tons of crude to India.
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The longest previous such period was 61 days, in 1985, according to Mr. Ranter.
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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Company profits also dropped 0.7% in the April to June period, from the previous three months, the third straight quarter of decline in incomes.
The lower salary covered a slightly shorter period than in the previous season.
However, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the sector expanded by an annualised rate of 3.1% in the October to December period, compared with the previous three months.
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