Sentences with phrase «lower than previous years»

And for two good reasons: 1) their traffic is much lower than previous years, and 2) doubling their conversion rate could triple profits.

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.

While demand for municipal bonds continues to be extremely strong, new issue supply remains lower than previous years.

July 20, 2015 — Despite concerns that scores would come back lower than previous years» with the introduction of the new Smarter Balanced tests aligned to the Common Core Standards, Oregon students scored significantly better than expected, according to preliminary results shared with the Albany Democrat - Herald.

Much has been written about the «low» grade boundaries and how they are lower than previous years.

For some reason, that year, their average on the state test was 15 % lower than previous years.

If results do turn out to be lower than previous years, then Mrs Morgan feels: «It wouldn't mean children have performed any worse this year; simply that we have raised the bar on what counts as good enough.

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.

The overall foreign exchange benefit from the falling Australian dollar to Treasury across all of its operations was $ 9.2 million, lower than the previous year's injection of $ 28.5 million from currency benefits.

Sales value fell 1.4 % to just over # 420m and volume sales are 9.4 % lower than the previous year at just over 64,100 tonnes.

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.

The Lib Dems» 2006 income was lower than the previous year - as a lot of money had been raised for the 2005 general election - raising # 5.8 m.

Last spring's number of closures (202) is actually lower than the previous year's high - water mark of 257.

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.

You use this form to «request to reduce your OAS recovery tax if you estimate that your income for the current year will be lower than the previous year.»

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.

Cement production — a strong indicator of economic activity, but also an emitting activity — was much lower than the previous year, more than 5 % down in each of the first four months of 2017.

As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record levels of renewable energy capacity in 2016, at an investment level 23 per cent lower than the previous year

In May 2013, they each received a letter from the school indicating their contracts would not be renewed for the upcoming year because enrolment was expected to be lower than the previous year.

Inventory continues to fall significantly lower than the previous year, with a 26.6 percent drop from May 2011.

Fewer houses are also on the market, as homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages weigh their options; so far this year NAR housing data has shown inventory levels consistently lower than the previous year.

Actual overall residential sales were 14.7 per cent lower than the previous year at the same time.

Not exact matches

«Anything much worse than that could unleash a wave of new selling, perhaps taking out key support at $ 15.50 and setting up a test of the previous lows from late last year,» said Steven Schoenfeld, founder of BlueStar Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli stocks.

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.

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.

All property listings were 11.4 per cent lower than the same month the previous year and 10 per cent lower than the 10 - year average.

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).

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.

«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.

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

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.

During a record melting jag this past summer, the Greenland ice sheet lost 552 billion tons (19 billion tons lower than the previous low), and the volume of sea ice fell to half the volume it had four years ago.

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

Bolton explains how: «Swooping as low as 5000 km above the cloudtops, Juno will spend a full year orbiting nearer to Jupiter than any previous spacecraft.

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.

An Amazing Spider - Man sequel (13 points lower than the previous film), George Clooney's The Monuments Men, and a remake of Annie are among the Sony films last year that underperformed with critics.

Even this year's highest - scoring new release — Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. for Wii U — had a significantly lower Metascore than previous Metacritic Game of the Year winnyear's highest - scoring new release — Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. for Wii U — had a significantly lower Metascore than previous Metacritic Game of the Year winnYear winners.

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.