The phrase "a comparable time period" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or comparing durations of time that are similar or equivalent in some way.
Example: "To understand the trends better, we should analyze the data from a comparable time period last year."
Alternatives: "an equivalent time frame" or "a similar duration".
During the period studied, 29 Duke graduates interned in pathology compared to six under a comparable time period in the traditional curriculum.
However, we are unaware of any data comparing seasonal changes over a comparable time period between two countries, irrespective of seasonality shift by being in the northern or southern hemisphere.
It was a world record: Never before had so many jobs been created during a comparable time period.
An additional 13 children with typically developing language received no specialized training (NoTx control group) but were tested and retested after a comparable time period to control for maturational and test retest effects.
Game 1 of the Cubs-Braves National League diviserieseries generated a 7.5 Nielsen rating for Fox on Tuesday night, a 15percentt improvement over the rating for the opener of the Angels-Yankees series in a comparable time period last season.
The index's 86 percent increase from a 12-year low on March 9, 2009, is the biggest for a comparable time period since 1955, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S.& P. The Labor Department said first-time filings for unemployment insurance decreased by 34,000 to 388,000 in the week ended Dec. 25, compared with the median forecast of 415,000 in a Bloomberg News survey.
In the first six months of the year, civilians suffered more casualties — 1,462 — than in any comparable time period since the war began.
Comparisons to last season are a bit complicated because last year Fox had a two-hour edition of "Idol" in the comparable time period, and this year the episode was just an hour.
Although the 2010 game was a modest success, selling 1.3 million units in the U.S. from its November launch through the end of that year, 2012's sequel sold only 270,000 copies during the comparable time period, according to a person with access to sales data from research firm NPD Group who was not authorized to share it publicly.
He said Nintendo had sold one million more Nintendo 3DSes than it did an older handheld, the Nintendo DS, during the comparable time period.
The ratings for each of the three Bowl Championship Series games suffered serious ratings declines, led by Wednesday night's Florida-Maryland Orange Bowl, which produced a 9.5 rating, down 27percentt from a 13.0 last year for the Sugar Bowl, which was played in the comparable time period.
