Sentences with phrase «higher than the previous year»

After adjusting for rebates and other discounts offered by pharmaceutical companies, spending totaled $ 309.5 billion, 8.5 % higher than the previous year.

And sign - on bonuses were up slightly, with the average signing bonus $ 157 higher than the previous year.

For existing homes, sales dipped 3.4 percent in October but were still about four percent higher than the previous year, while sales prices rose for the 44th straight month and were up 5.8 percent from the same time period.

The month of December also held steady at an all - time high, which was 5.2 percent higher than the previous year.

Santa Rosa, Calif. — The Sonoma County Vintners fourth annual barrel auction on April 20 raised $ 840,700, which is 6 % higher than the previous year.

Construction and new equipment will make the 2002 - 03 annual budget $ 7 million higher than the previous year's $ 18 million, Dean said.

Actually, in 2017 it ranked 53 higher than the previous year, but I don't have high hopes for the name.

In the first two years, property tax payers would get a rebate for any tax charges that are higher than the previous year's levy.

You see, New York State law says that a local district may impose a «contingency» budget — allowing an increase no higher than the previous year's Consumer Price Index (CPI)-- without voter approval.

«We had just received the results of last year's CTBS test,» says McCrory, «and our test scores in reading were even higher than the previous year's.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.

Last June, the graduation rate climbed to 67.9 percent, or 1.3 percentage points higher than the previous year.

The 2012 Nissan JUKE prices are seen to be between $ 800 to $ 1,000 higher than the previous year.

Specifically, the Optima SX trim's notable rating of 57 - percent of original manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) for 24 months of ownership is a full 10 points higher than the previous year.

In Q4 our distribution is quite a bit higher than the previous year — it's up by 23.05 %.

The rating agency said the percentage of Alt - A loans that are 90 or more days delinquent in 2006 is 2.5 times higher than the previous year's figure and more than 4 times that of 2004.

At the end of 2016, the building was approximately 90 % leased, with renewal rents about $ 60 - 75 higher than the previous year.

USPS says there were 6,755 such attacks in 2016, more than 200 higher than the previous year.

Indonesia's resort island of Bali has welcomed an increased number of South Korean tourists, recording 168,181 visitors throughout January until November 2017, or approximately 23 percent higher than the previous year.

Given that 2012 numbers nearly doubled via on - site registration, total attendance may potentially reach 40 percent higher than previous years at the close of the show on Thursday, October 10th.

The figure is 2.4 percent higher than the previous year and 9.0 percent higher than the base year of the Kyoto Protocol.

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro - electric projects) was $ 270.2 billion in 2014, nearly 17 % higher than the previous year, according to the latest edition of an annual report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economic (DTIE) in cooperation with Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and produced in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Simultaneously, the average size of the grid - connected European offshore wind farms is now 493 MW, 34 % higher than the previous year.

ICO funding for the first quarter of 2018 was USD6.3 billion, almost 20 percent higher than the previous year, according to Coindesk.

According to Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, suspensions and revocations issued in fiscal year 2007 - 2008 were about 30 percent higher than the previous year.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Increased company revenue by 77 % by indulging in well - placed business development activities • Built and maintained effective relationships with corporate customers, resulting in increased confidence in company mission • Optimized business development consultancy approaches which resulted in streamlined work processes • Developed external business opportunities, 85 % higher than the previous years

February marked the first time in 18 months that home prices rose higher than the previous year, and year - to - year price increases haven't occurred in two consecutive months since August 2010.

Actual overall residential sales were three per cent higher than the previous year at the same time.

Actual overall residential sales of 1564 units were 4.8 per cent higher than the previous year at the same time.

Residential sales fell 0.3 per cent short of last year's sales, while sales in the commercial sector — farms, vacant land, businesses and multi-residential properties — were 17.2 per cent higher than the previous year, contributing to the push past last year's sales.

Actual overall residential sales were 4.6 per cent higher than the previous year at the same time and set a new record for residential sales in any month.

Not exact matches

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

The practice means that each new year's grants tend to end up being potentially more valuable than the previous year's, just because stock prices tend to drift higher over time.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner at venture capital firm Comcast Ventures.

On Monday, as the market again reached a new record high, Trump tweeted that the first year of his presidency had seen 70 record closes (presumably he meant 70 record - high closes), which he said was more than any previous year.

The latest report departs from previous estimates pegging the company's value during an IPO at $ 25 to $ 35 billion, higher than the $ 20 billion valuation Snap received when it raised funding earlier this year.

Bonuses, in fact, were up at Goldman in 2010, with all executive officers receiving higher paychecks than they had during the previous two years.

Tesla also reported first quarter revenue of $ 3.41 billion, up more than 6 % from $ 3.2 billion in the previous quarter and 19 % higher than the same quarter last year.

The overall level of activity is up more than 67 percent from a year earlier and about a third ahead of 2007, the previous high - water mark for takeovers.

Antares, which was known as Amity Oil until November last year, announced a half year profit to December 31 of $ 8.2 million, which was 15 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period.

'' «Infinity War» has the added benefit of being promised as a semi-finale to 10 years» worth of franchise building, which could elevate its box - office performance even higher than previous Marvel sequels,» said Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.com.

The dollar retreated from an 11 - year high in the previous session, falling about 1 percent to the euro EUR = after weaker - than - expected orders for U.S. durable goods in December.

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

-LRB-...) Eurostat said wages were 2.0 % higher in the three months through June than a year earlier, the fastest rise since the first quarter of 2015 and up from 1.3 % in the previous three - month period.

Finally the real New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a percentage of US GDP rose to new highs — going over the previous high set on March 2000, more than 15 years ago when the dot - com bubble was at peak!

The Shanghai Gold Exchange's announcement of the full year figure for gold withdrawals for calendar 2015 show that a huge new record of 2,596.4 tonnes was taken out — 19 % higher than the previous record of 2,182 tonnes recorded in 2013.

In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33).

Half - year profits of the 158 companies in the ASX 200 index that reported for the half year to December 2004 amounted to $ 29 billion, 91 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year (Graph D1).

That was 10 % higher than the same time in the previous year, the result of steady appreciation in the housing market.