Sentences with phrase «fewer than last year»

The Halstead Market Report is based on 2,547 reported Manhattan apartment sales, 14 percent fewer than last year's comparable period.

* Update Mar. 18 * While there were lots of offers available to DIY investors from Canadian online brokerages into the RRSP contribution deadline, there were definitely fewer than last year.

Some early figures are beginning to emerge, with the pan-London Admissions Scheme saying 103,329 pupils applied for primary school places in the capital this year - just 58 fewer than last year - «demonstrating that pressure on places remains strong».

Figures published on Thursday also showed that 2,460 exam candidates faced penalties for cheating this year, fewer than last year.

Twenty secondary schools have achieved the highest band rating - eight fewer than last year - according to performance rankings.

A total of 154 state - funded schools out of about 3,200 were classed as under - performing - 61 fewer than last year.

Forty - four balls were hit into the water at the island - green 17th, 40 fewer than last year.

Not exact matches

Fewer marketers have a documented content strategy than last year (32 % vs 35 % last year).

The biggest change to the Mac's operating system in the last few years was the integration of the Siri virtual assistant — which is still less helpful than Microsoft's own Cortana.

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sectFew technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sectfew years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

Blue Diamond, the producer of Almond Breeze milk, was hit with a lawsuit last year that alleged false advertising; it alleged that the almond milk had far fewer almonds than the milk maker led consumers to believe.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

The first half of 2005 - 06 has been one of the most active sales periods in the Perth CBD for many years according to Knight Frank, which has sold more than $ 50 million worth of buildings in the last few months.

It was a blockbuster product for Nintendo a few years ago, but the company sold fewer than 900,000 in the last quarter, down from 1.4 million at this time last year.

The reviews go back a few years, but there were more than from the last week at the time of writing, which indicates the product is rather popular.

Since 2010, Porsche has almost tripled its sales in China, where its sales trailed the U.S. last year by fewer than 100 vehicles.

«We, at GM, have had the view for a little while that the world of mobility is going change in the next few years more than it has changed in the last 50 years,» GM president Dan Ammann told Fortune.

Since 1999 I've been running my digital marketing agency, but over the last few years I've turned most of the daily operations over to a team that can run the agency better than I can.

Over the last few years, there has been an increasingly competitive battle for people's attention, and there is more noise than ever as brands clamor for the all - important commodity of attention.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

In fact, if your startup transforms into a successful business and lasts for more than a few years, it's almost a given that it'll change.

Airline frequent flier programs have become less rewarding over the last few years by offering fewer upgrades to elite fliers and requiring more miles than ever for award tickets.

It's certainly a better market than it has been over the last few years.

But those buyers made 9 % fewer purchases than last year, and they spent 5 % less.

The club Lee and her peers belong to is a small one: fewer than 6 % of all decision - markers at U.S. venture capital firms were women last year, according to a Fortune analysis.

LJ: I'm in the 250ish range, you know, a lot lighter than I've been playing at in the last few years.

«Last month alone we had more than one million students, and throughout 2014 we expect more than five million kids to use Descomplica... this market is going to grow a lot in the next few years, for sure.»

Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the last few days, less than two weeks after a 19 year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high school in Florida.

However, others such as Best Buy and Toys «R Us said they would hire fewer workers than they did last year.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

At Intel Andy Grove would grow the company from a few thousand dollars in his first year to more than $ 20 billion in revenue during his last year as CEO.

Jones garnered 405,865 votes, just 8,331 fewer votes than Clinton received last year with 414,196 ballots cast in her name.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

So far this year, fewer startups have hit the prized billion - dollar valuation than did any in a single quarter last year.

More than 25 CEOs have stepped into the top spot at a Fortune 500 company so far this year, plenty of them within the last few months.

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $ 100 billion).

But fewer people will be shopping today, Cyber Monday, than last year, the National Retail Federation says.

Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing films last year — five percentage points fewer than in 2016.

As a result, according to a survey conducted last year by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.

Bubble gum sales are off more than 40 % over the last few years.

I have basically the same annual budget now than I did 10 years ago when my annual income was half as much, and is a big reason why I've been able to rapidly grow assets the last few years as I've been able to put that excess income into investments.

It is likely that there will continue to be more volatility in the stock market than in the last few years.

Low volatility had been replaced by high volatility — Q1 had 23 days of daily moves greater than 1 % in the S&P versus seven such days for all of last year, and the first few weeks of the second quarter have seen similar swings.

Earnings growth was in some cases was one and half to two times faster for individual EAFE countries than US companies the last few years.

If you multiply China's GDP growth by its share of global GDP, you will find that Chinese growth over the last few years has comprised a larger share of global GDP growth than that of any other country.