Sentences with phrase «example to compare»

Let's use another realistic example to compare life insurance rates.

As far as I know, there is no homeostatic system in the body to maintain weight, so I think you have the wrong example to compare with climate homeostasis.

If you are teaching students about Rosa Parks, then find a real - world example to compare her journey to.

Anyway, when I was working on my plan for my second year of blogging, I realized there is almost nothing online to give me an example to compare to or a standard as a reference.

I'm not sure if Afghanistan is a good example to compare against.

Maybe you are thinking this isn't the best example to compare to formula feeding because people don't choose wheelchairs, and most don't.

Not exact matches

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Being able to cook, for example, is nice, but compared to discipline, it has limited applicability in the rest of life.

For example, 33.8 percent of workaholics met the criteria for anxiety compared to 12.7 percent of non-workaholics; 32.7 percent met the criteria for ADHD, while 12.7 percent of non-workaholics did the same; 25.6 percent of workaholics met OCD criteria to the 8.7 of non-workaholics; and 8.9 percent of workaholics met depression criteria compared to 2.6 percent of non-workaholics.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

For example, labs take DNA samples from patients being tested for cancer and runs tests to detect if mutations typically associated with cancer are present; a diagnostician then examines those genetic mutations and compares them to known instances; finally, based on that information a physician recommends a course of treatment.

For example, in an October interview with industry trade publication Digiday, media consultant Aram Zucker - Scharff compared the project to Facebook's Instant Articles project, which is pitched as making news articles easier to read by hosting them directly on the social network's site.

In Malawi, for example, which had the highest business closure rate in the world, women shuttered businesses at a rate of 30 percent over the past two years, compared to about 25 percent for men.

While the laptops are relatively low - powered compared to competitors, Google's smartphone has similar specs to other rival high - end devices and is in some cases better (it has a higher screen resolution than the iPhone 5S, for example).

A little less than one in three small businesses were found to offer health insurance benefits to employees, for example, as compared to the national average of 96 percent of larger firms.

For example, of the millennial respondents, 45 percent say they chose a more expensive home than they'd planned, compared to 30 percent of «Generation Xers» — those born from the early 1960s to late 1970s — and 19 percent of baby boomers.

This year, for example, 38 percent of customers reported that they compare prices online and in person before buying, underscoring the need for e-retailers to be aware of competing in - store prices, and vice versa.

For example, that we make healthier choices (eating and exercising) than we really do, or when assessing the risk we, compared to others, pose when it comes to, say, texting while driving.

John Komlos, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Munich, says that the stagnation of growth in the USA compared to Northern European populations could be due to different national healthcare systems: for example, the Dutch have access to socialized medicine that Americans do not.

One is the obvious comparison issue — everyone has their favourite analogy for comparing broadband to other examples, from highways to eating too many potatoes at a buffet.

During the 2001 — 2007 cycle, for example, GDP grew at 2.4 %, compared to an average of 3.3 % across previous cycles since 1948.

The estimated 22 million watches Apple (aapl) has sold over the past two years, for example, disappointed Wall Street and is a drop in the bucket compared to the 3 billion smartphones sold worldwide over the same period, including over 400 million iPhones alone.

For example, as low - cost as BillFloat might be compared with charges for bounced checks, 3 percent per month works out to a near - Sopranos level of 36 percent annually.

For example, more than four in 10 women, according to the Bayt.com Working Women in the Middle East and North Africa Survey, believe they have fewer opportunities for career growth when compared to their male counterparts.

For example, a few years ago, a compelling study in the MIT Sloan Management Review used ROA data (among other metrics) to compare the performances of external and internal candidates in CEO successions.

In the 2016 election, for example, these and other internet giants donated about $ 1.8 million to Republican campaigns, compared to $ 1.5 million on Democratic candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

For example, a 2001 study compared the hormone levels of Canadian fathers - to - be to those of single men.

The Dark Knight Rises, for example, is $ 4.99 to rent or $ 19.99 to buy, compared to $ 5.99 and $ 24.99 on iTunes.

Dealmaking in the Australian mining industry, for example, is showing some growth this year compared to last, according to a September report by accounting firm BDO.

A trip to the grocery store, for example, can be an opportunity to cover planning, budgeting and value — in the relatively more fun guise of making a grocery list, clipping coupons and comparing unit prices.

For example, you might write, «Increase Company.com's traffic by 25 %,» or «John, see how you compare to competitors.»

This is compared to a bank, for example, which may have a central database of information, or a central vault in which all of the money is stored.

That's compared to a 32.4 in the United Kingdom and a 21.5 in Finland, for example.

For example, if you compared 2007 to 2011, when DuPont had cash flow of $ 5.8 billion, you would get a much higher return on investment, something like 13 % after taxes.

In this example, the person with the credit score between 660 and 679 would pay $ 1,187.84 per year extra in interest compared to the person with the excellent credit score of between 760 and 800.

Those who take part in simulated surgical training, for example, retain as much as 80 % of what they learned a year later, compared to 20 % among people who are taught in traditional ways.

EPRO's managers made a tactical move to cash in the fall when they saw downward market momentum, for example, while HYLD has strong yield compared to peers, with a 30 - day SEC yield of 11.52 percent.

For example, Prime members spend an average of $ 1,300 annually with Amazon, compared to about $ 700 for non-members, according to CIRP.

For example, I couldn't find a large package of chicken breasts to compare to the one at Trader Joe's, so I would have to buy two of them to last me two weeks.

For example, compared to your competitors, could you be more professional in tone to appeal to more business people?

For example, The New York Times» 10 Ways to Be a Greener Traveler, Even if You Love to Fly confuses values so much it suggests closing your laptop lid compares to how much traveling pollutes.

(For example, how is a researcher supposed to compare what the Fitbit algorithm calls a step to what the Jawbone algorithm calls a step?)

For example, the comment letter submitted by Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that retirement savers who received conflicted advice during the 60 - day delay would receive $ 3.7 billion less when their savings are drawn down over 30 years compared to those savers that did not receive conflicted advice.

For example, over the past three months, payroll gains have averaged about 150,000 per month, as compared to an average of more than 200,000 per month over the course of 2015 and the first quarter of this year.

Consider this simple example with a three - instrument portfolio comprised of a S&P 500 ETF, a long - term bond ETF and a cash - proxy ETF.1 Based on daily returns since 2010, the annualized volatility on the cash proxy (a short - term bond ETF) is effectively zero, compared to 16 % and 15 % for the stock and bond ETFs.

For example, 57 percent of those who participated in the ETA survey chose a shorter - term loan option with a higher APR for a hypothetical short - term business opportunity because it offered a lower overall dollar cost when compared to a longer - term loan with a lower APR..

For example, long - term capital gains and qualified dividends face a schedule of rates ranging from 0 to 20 percent, compared with rates on ordinary income, which range from 10 to 39.6 percent.

I'd be curious to see some similar numbers and example trajectories of best - case and worst - case scenarios on long - term outcomes, compared to a more conservative approach.

For example I'm interested in how politics affect our daily life when it comes to health choices, comparing different economies, law enforcement, education, data visualization and many more.

In this example, we're comparing two keywords that mean the same thing to see which one is more popular: «laptop» and «notebook».