Sentences with phrase «overall quality of this year»

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The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

As our study has consistently shown over the past eight years, there is no long - term correlation between the amount of money a company spends on its innovation efforts and its overall financial performance; instead, what matters is how companies use that money and other resources, as well as the quality of their talent, processes, and decision making.

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So, as a parent myself now for more than 18 years, I've allowed my kids to eat sweets so that they don't feel deprived but talked about limits and the effects of eating too much «less than quality food» — but that a small amount also be fine occasionally in the context of an overall healthy lifestyle.

«We focus on improving our level of service, quality metrics, overall manufacturing efficiencies and productivity year after year.

SAICA received the award for Best Overall Supplier for a record eighth time after being judged to have provided an «excellent standard of quality packaging solutions» to OKI, which helped them to achieve project targets throughout the year and adapt to market changes.

This means that overall the wines tasted from the previous two years were of better quality.

Chan told the drinks business, «In 2014, we had an excellent year, even flowering, long sunny days of abundant sunshine and overall high quality of fruit.»

Devastating as these were, as Colin Hay argued in a recent piece for the drinks business, their impact on the overall quality of the wines that were produced was much less severe than in the bad frost years of 1956 and 1991.

The report shows that 2017 was a year of change for the # 10.8 bn1 UK Total Wine market with volume falling but value rising overall, influenced in part by rising prices and taxes but also by a discernible shift among consumers towards choosing quality over quantity.

But in terms of overall quality, I think this midfield is weaker than the Barcelona midfield we've all grown accustomed to over the years.

Overall 2016 was an improvement year [in terms of] the quality of our results, but still not where we want it to be.

Despite spending more money than they have in recent years, the overall quality of the team has not improved significantly.

Overall, the The First Years True Fit Premier is an excellent convertible car seat, which offers a high level of safety, comfort for the child, and durability due to the quality of the materials.

Over the next several years, I want to work with you to bring renewable energies to our community, improve the quality of our air, our failing grade, and the overall health of our community.»

The foundation measures years of potential life lost before age 75; quality of life examines physical, mental and overall health, as well as the percentage of babies born with birth weights under about 5.5 pounds.

He says part of Obama's plan is to increase overall preschool quality by moving the 4 - year - olds in Head Start into pre-kindergarten programs.

Between 2000 and 2016, air quality in both the Sacramento Valley and the San Joaquin Valley improved, with the number of days per year with 24 - hour PM2.5 exceedances falling by roughly 64 percent and 45 percent overall, respectively.

Investigators will examine the impact of the mSMT on new learning and memory abilities and measures of daily life functioning and overall quality of life, assessing both groups immediately post-treatment and at one and two years post-intervention.

Another study conducted earlier this year found that people over the age of 60 are less likely to suffer from restless leg syndrome and have better sleep quality overall when they feel a strong sense of purpose.

In terms of overall quality — I've read mixed reviews of Lindy Bop over the years, but was pleasantly surprised by a lot of the details on this dress, particularly given the price point.

Despite the fact that its Wii U console spent the year fading into irrelevance, Nintendo had more unique titles than any other publisher and managed to improve the overall quality of its releases — mainly by sticking to its handheld device.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

For the fourth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

(Those letter grades, by the way, compare the overall quality of each studio's output last year against that of their peers.)

For the sixth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

Overall, the past television season appears to represent an improvement over the previous year in terms of show quality.

For the seventh straight year, we have analyzed both the box office performance and overall film quality of the seven - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

As always, the quality of those films varied widely, taking in films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which scored lower than all but one film last year).

Other people who tried out the PSP version were quick to agree that the graphics quality of the game are overall damn impressive for a nine year - old hand - held console.

From the outset, the loss of Greengrass as director should have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of this film, but this isn't the main obstacle facing Legacy, as they have a very capable auteur in the form of Gilroy, and it should be remembered that the franchise was kick - started by Doug Liman some ten years ago.

The overall quality and superb core gameplay prevent the game's faults from hindering the experience in a meaningful way, and because of this Destiny will remain an ambitious must - play title for years to come.

This is a pretty solid franchise that did relatively well last generation, but has slipped in terms of overall quality in the past three or four years.

When I look at my list, the overall quality of the films themselves was perhaps no poorer than in the monumental selections of the past two years, but there was a certain bewilderment, a malaise that put me at a distance.

In recognition of its strong commitment to customer service, Foremans achieved an average score of 88 per cent for overall customer satisfaction last year, including both building and service quality, and 91 per cent of customers surveyed would recommend Foremans building solutions.

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According to Cavanaugh, the overall quality of the program also brings schools back year after year.

This school year, charters will serve nearly 38,000 students — 44 percent of all public - school students in D.C. And these schools, which consistently outperform D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) overall and across all subgroups, offer students a tremendous variety of quality educational opportunities.

An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

The decreases occurred even though overall appropriations for education research increased in the same period, according to Lois - ellin Datta, director of human - services program evaluation for the gao She said the situation had improved only marginally since the agency reported a signficant decline in the quality and quantity of federal education data nearly two years ago.

In a review of California's «last in, first out» process conducted over four years ago, the state's own Legislative Analyst Office concluded that seniority - based layoffs lead «to lower quality of the overall teacher workforce» and recommended that «the state explore alternatives that could provide districts with the discretion to do what is in the best interest of their students.»

The number of essential practices implemented systematically across our Albuquerque partner schools increased in just one year of partnership, with 100 % of network participants describing the overall quality of the sessions as good or excellent.

Three years ago, Chicago Public Schools initiated the School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP), which places schools into one of five rating scores to gauge overall effectiveness: Level 1 + (best performing), Level 1, Level 2 +, Level 2, and Level 3 (poorest performing).

These observations showed significantly higher levels of overall classroom quality among classrooms in the 4Rs schools compared to classrooms in the control schools at the end of the first year.

We also find that the district assigned teachers with weaker qualifications to Algebra I classes in the first year of the acceleration, but this reduction in teacher quality accounts for only a small portion of the overall effect.

Overall, DSCRN recruited 769 families last year, but the number of students who actually enrolled in what it defines as a quality school was only 115.

No matter how you mix it, it's better to go with Value - Added, student surveys, or both: As Dropout Nation noted last year, the accuracy of classroom observations is so low that even in a multiple measures approach to evaluation in which value - added data and student surveys account for the overwhelming majority of the data culled from the model (72.9 percent, and 17.2 percent of the evaluation in one case), the classroom observations are of such low quality that they bring down the accuracy of the overall performance review.

Paint is very presentable but not perfect - as mentioned some is original and some panels have been painted over the years, the overall effect is pleasing but not quite up to the quality of its body, mechanicals and interior.

The 2015 Honda Civic was also named the car of the year in its segment by Kelley Blue Book, because of its overall performance and quality.