period
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Net migration measures the overall change in a country’s population due to migration over a given period.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
The company attributed its revenue growth to higher product sales and service revenue compared to the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
The new rule’s comment period ended earlier this month.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
The last similar period was in 2021, although the gap was much smaller.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
I didn’t know it yet, but he and his mother had moved fourteen times over a period of ten years, and he had become expert at hanging pictures and spackling plaster.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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