Sentences with phrase «lower than in previous years»

The ice extents for each day of the growth season from December 2010 to March 2011 were significantly lower than those in previous years, and the values for most days were at record lows for the satellite era.

«We have recorded two additional deaths, bringing the number to seven and this is lower than in previous years at this time», he told a news medium.

However, the various expenditure reduction exercises over recent years, without major cuts to programs and services, have forced departments to operate «closer to the edge», implying that the lapse at the end of the year will be lower than in previous years.

Fiction's average price is lower than in the previous year from $ 5.69 in 2010 to $ 5.24 in 2011.

Only 4 % said that prices are lower than in the previous year.

I am fine with that, the issuance of shares to pay dividends led to a dilution for existing shareholders, the flipside is that there is a witholding tax on cash dividends from Royal Dutch Shell of 15 %, so my income from that wonderful company will be lower than in the previous year (it was around USD 600 in 2017 and will be around USD 500 in 2018).

Not exact matches

However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

The city still needs to work on hiring of new employees, however, as respondents rated this factor lower in 2015 than in the previous two years.

With low money and credit growth persisting, inflation below target and growth slower than in previous years I now expect the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee to keep interest rates unchanged during this year.

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 33In 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 33in the previous three months (Graph 33).

At around two - thirds, the share of Australian entities» issuance that went into offshore markets was noticeably lower than in the first half of 2003, when offshore issuance was particularly strong, but broadly consistent with its average of the previous two years.

This represents an increase from the responses given in the previous two quarters, but is still lower than most of the readings from this survey over the past five years.

Foxtons said full - year group revenue and adjusted earnings would now be «significantly lower» than in the previous year.

Stevia, a natural low - calorie sweetener, is edging out sugar and syrups — Mintel reports 36 percent of customers used more stevia in 2013 than in previous years [5].

Pirelli say their new 2017 - spec tyres will have much lower degradation than they've had in previous years, according to early analysis.

433,000 More low - income students participated in the School Breakfast Program in the 2015 - 2016 school year than during the previous year.

Unofficial results for both counties show that turnout was lower than in previous off - year primary contests.

Trenton's budget response cuts a half - billion dollars from the New Jersey spending plan — resulting in spending levels that are actually lower than the previous year.

Their analysis of data in previous studies done by The Cancer Genome Atlas group have shown that the types of abnormal methylation levels they found are lower in smokers who have quit for more than 10 years than those who have not quit.

The figure is similar to previous years and much lower than in Japan (78 %), Europe (70 %), China (69 %), and South Korea (64 %).

Thanks to a relatively quiet Atlantic hurricane season, damage caused by extreme weather was actually lower in 2011 than in four of the previous five years.

This year's maximum extent, reached on March 7 at 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers), is 37,000 square miles (97,00 square kilometers) below the previous record low, which occurred in 2015, and 471,000 square miles (1.22 million square kilometers) smaller than the average maximum extent for 1981 - 2010.

Malaria deaths between 2005 and 2008 were a stunning 86 % lower than in the previous 4 years.

And in another hydro station called Longtan, located in the Guangxi region, this year's missing rain dropped its reservoir's water level to a point dozens of meters lower than previous years.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

Largely thanks to a decrease in coal consumption in both countries, the analysis suggests that annual emissions from the two countries combined are on track to be about 2 billion to 3 billion tons lower in the year 2030 than previous estimates have indicated.

Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now.

Yes, that beat out the other awards shows (like the Golden Globes and Grammys) this year, but it's also over 5 million lower than the previous low (32 million in 2008) and 20 percent lower viewership than the Oscars saw in 2017.

The survey found mental disorders affected one in seven students in the previous 12 months and students with mental disorders scored lower on average than students without mental disorders in every test domain and year level.

Results of its sixth annual literacy survey of more than 32 000 eight - to 18 - year - olds, released this month, show 44.8 per cent said they enjoy writing very much or quite a lot in 2015 — down from 49.3 per cent the previous year and 10 per cent lower than the 2015 figure for enjoyment of reading.

One teacher, for example, observed a much larger gap between her high - achieving and low - achieving students than in previous years.

The government says that figures from the Health Protection Agency show much lower levels of flu - like illness in the winter 2010/11 than in previous years.

While millennials in the U.S. have attended more years of school than previous generations, their skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving are lower than those of previous generations and of their peers in other nations.

In 2013, the support for increased spending among uninformed respondents was 10 percentage points lower than the previous year at 53 percent, while informed support remained steady at 43 percent.

First Sign of Better Times for Schools Under Prop 30 Deferred payments to California schools and community colleges will fall to their lowest level in five years this academic year, and repayments for previous deferrals is starting sooner than expected.

Picking up the designing cues of last year's remake of the popular midsize sedan, the 2018 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid shares the new front end, updated interior and comes in at a base price $ 500 lower than the previous model.

Featuring a fresh, bold, athletic and sporty design; longer, lower and wider than the previous generation model, the new Sportage will offer more space for people and cargo, with improved ride quality thanks to the longer wheelbase; the new Sportage will go on sale later this year, with a choice of both diesel and gasoline engines following its debut in March at the Geneva Motor Show.

But when converting the revenues in Euros from Pounds, the total amount was half a billion lower than it would have been, had the GBP maintained its value from the previous year.

I've bought more music and games online in the past 2 years than I did in the previous 4 because I know I can get a better product than the pirated version, for a lower price than in a retail store.

There was an 11 % rise in print ISBNs in 2016 from 2015, which is a lower rate of growth than the previous year's 34 % increase.

This is 3 times lower than previous month gain, in fact this is the slowest growth I've observed since I've started counting Kindle books this year.

Additionally, 204,000 consumers had a bankruptcy notation added to their credit reports in the final quarter of 2016, which was about 4 % fewer than at the same time the previous year — and also a new series low.

If millennials are correct and their employment continuity is more precarious than previous generations, or else they really are going to prioritize work - life balance or following their passions over constant, steady employment, then the fluctuations in their work - related incomes year - to - year might make RRSPs a useful vehicle for those years of lower or no other income.

Company produced $ 28.3 mm of operating cash flow in FY2010 (June), lower than previous years but decent given poor operating performance and bloated cost structure.

Rates are much lower on these accounts than in previous years.

Assuming distributions of 0.5 percent, one finds that the after - tax return drops to 1.3 percent, which will turn the initial investment of $ 10,000 into $ 13,700 over 25 years — that's less than 40 percent of the growth experienced by the low - cost, low - turnover investor in the previous scenario.

However, the impact is that low and moderate income tax filers have to wait longer for their tax refunds than in previous years.

The low down payment program was 90 percent of the 4,351 mortgages worth $ 727.8 million issued through CalSTRS last year — more than the total of loans issued in the five previous years.

Total housing inventory fell 11.4 % in December 2017, according to the National Association of Realtors, and was 10.3 % lower than the previous year.

H.H. Backer's decision to adopt a new midweek schedule ensures that attendees will be able to book hotel rooms at significantly lower rates than in previous years.