Sentences with phrase «larger than last year»

So we have a battery that's 5 % larger than last year's model powering a screen that has four times the number of pixels.

We're not expecting a wild reinvention, but its improved battery (rumored to be larger than last year's 3,300 mAh Note 8 battery) and Android P support could make the Note 9 worthy of your attention when it launches later in 2018.

The Nexus 6 is much larger than last year's Nexus 5.

Larger than last year's Home, it features stereo speakers and a more premium design.

Google has dramatically increased the screen - to - body ratio with the Pixel XL, so it's only a few millimeters larger than last year's model despite a half - inch more of display.

Having the older models around also makes sense from a style perspective, with the Gear S3 Frontier and Classic going in a different direction from the more sporty Gear S2, and being notably larger than last year's models.

Bird & Bird has made up one female partner as part of an annual promotion round three times larger than last year, with Watson Farley & Williams and Ince & Co both also announcing their new partners.

Toshiba had the corner that showed the most earnestness and featured technology that is really cutting edge - and their environmental section this year is larger than last year.

, EarthEra and their push for alternative energy, the Greener Gadgets presentation area... But despite the fact that CEA said the Sustainable Planet section was 40 % larger than last year's, it still felt painfully small and to be honest, not as packed with things as before.

Organizers say that the meeting is larger than last year's, which centered on challenging the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Much more picturesque than the south west England county, this latest update to Zenimax's MMO will be the biggest new zone yet - even larger than last year's Vvardenfell jaunt.

Despite being larger than last year's 3DS though, the XL actually feels skinnier and far more comfortable than its predecessor.

The battery is much larger than last year and it retains its rapid charge feature and quick wireless charging as well.

The 155 hp (116 kW) 4.5 - liter powerplant (introduced just a year earlier), dashboard, and the front doors (on both the coupe and sedan) were about the only items that carried over — even the luggage compartment was over 2 cubic feet (0.057 m3) larger than last year.

LED daytime running lights are now standard on the 2.0 T trims and the available LED headlights with dynamic bending light are larger than last year, bringing even more emphasis to the new grille.

The handsome (and larger than last year's model) new Altima will be available with a stormin» 240 horsepower 3.5 - liter V6, manual or automatic transmission and 17 - inch wheels.

While on the second row, I also took note of the new rear seat entertainment option, which steps up to dual 8 - inch displays that are an inch larger than last year's.

Mrs. S noted that the school had fewer fourth grade classes this year, but they were slightly larger than last year.

Though slightly larger than last year, the minimum sea ice extent 2017 is average for the past ten years and far below the numbers from 1979 to 2006.

The discovery generated worldwide headlines, but some teams were unable to replicate the findings and the actual genes have not been found — not even by a team that vindicated Hamer's identification of Xq28 in a sample size 10 times larger than his last year.

The budget totals $ 1.24 billion, approximately two million dollars larger than last year.

That deficit is larger than last year's projected $ 9.2 million shortfall, but still one of the smallest since Miner took office in 2010.

This year's budget is slightly larger than last year's and in real terms the savings represent trims in existing expenses that would make way for new spending, and keep the budget from growing even further.

Tax rebate checks are beginning to be received by Long Island homeowners and many of them are substantially larger than last year.

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

Europe's largest oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has beaten analyst expectations, reporting profits for its second quarter that are three times larger than this time last year.

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

Google reported more than $ 14 billion in profit on $ 66 billion in sales last year, most of it from lucrative Internet advertising, while other ventures have required large investments without showing immediate returns.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

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.

Last year, the game attracted the largest audience in history: More than 114 million viewers tuned in.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Last year, Hulu said it had roughly 12 million subscribers, which means the service still has a long way to go to catch up with its larger rivals, as Netflix boasts over 100 million subscribers around the world while more than 80 million people have Amazon Prime accounts.

China is now the largest SUV market in the world and last year SUV sales rose more than 30 %, while passenger cars sales climbed only around 10 %, according to China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

As expected, Corbyn defeated Smith in comfortable fashion, winning with an even larger mandate than he received in last year's leadership contest.

Singles» Day is the world's largest online retail festival, amassing $ 17.6 billion in sales over the 24 - hour period — far more than America's Cyber Monday's reported sales of $ 3 billion last year.

By choosing to include the number of donors and the amounts of some of its larger donations, including one of $ 10.1 million in the first year and another of $ 10.1 million in the last seven months of 2011, the group was somewhat more transparent than the IRS requires.

Development in Margaret River over the next 20 years should be contained in small hamlet - style nodes, rather than large residential estates, according to the shire's townsite strategy, which was released for public comment last week.

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.

Profits for the first half of 2004 were 20 times larger than in the same period last year.

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

The offering, the largest tech IPO since Snap last year, gave the company an initial market capitalization of more than $ 8 billion.

Over the last five and ten years, less than twenty percent of large - cap managers beat their benchmark.

The largest US coal producer, for one, lost more than US$ 500 million last year due to falling prices.

For example, Fort Lauderdale apartment rents are already less affordable than in most large U.S. cities and up by nearly three percent in the last year.

More than three dozen retailers sought bankruptcy protection last year, due in large part to radical shifts in where people shop, and what they buy.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.