Sentences with phrase «period last year despite»

That marked an 11 % increase over the same period last year despite rising programming costs and a decline in advertising revenue at ESPN.

Not exact matches

Despite the sweeping vistas available at home, the inhabitants of the area have a touch of the wanderlust: 24.2 % have been to Europe in the last three years, while 44.5 % have seen the Caribbean in the same period.

Despite the layoffs and poor performance in its first quarter, Suncor, Canada's largest oil sands producer, continues pumping out crude, outputting 602,400 barrels per day during the first quarter — up 10 % from the same period last year.

Looking at the actuarial funded ratio for state and local pension plans, the aggregate funded status of these plans has significantly declined over the last 15 years despite equities attaining all - time highs in recent periods.

Danish oils and fats company Aarhus Oliefabrik on Thursday reported a drop in operating income to DKK93m ($ 12.5 m) for the first six months of 2002, down from DKK 125m ($ 16.8 m) for the same period last year, but despite this the company...

Thus, despite considerable mortality reduction in the last 10 years, South Africa saw no appreciable change between 2015 and the beginning of the MDG period (see graph).

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.

The fast year - to - year increases in the first and last periods result in large part from increases in the amount of time in school, while the negligible change in overall scores between 2003 and 2004 does not pick up real gains made despite a shortened school year.

Despite the revenue drop, the Nook business saw an improvement in its earnings, jumping 67.5 percent from a loss of $ 190.4 million in last year's third fiscal quarter to a loss of $ 61.8 million during its most recent period.

Samsung (19.1 % share) maintained its second place in the market despite a -16.5 % decline in shipments compared to the same period last year.

Despite showing this end - of - Secular - Bull - Market period to make my point about market retracements, my technical view with the data currently at hand, as per the market analysis webinar mentioned above, is that the current Secular Bull Market is in it's first 5 years, not last 5 years...

Now this debate has become completely baseless, because the trend of the last 15 or 16 years is nothing unusual — even despite the record El Niño year at the beginning of the period.

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.

I'm not talking about his claims that the IPCC and others have failed to damp down that long, fat tail as much as they should have — as far as I knew, that was «settled» years ago by his work, among others, and Figure 2 shows very clearly that combining the different lines of evidence very effectively shows very high sensitivities to be unlikely, despite the instrumental period on its own not being able to show that, so I wasn't aware that this was the problem that he claims it is — but rather his claims that the last ten years or so tell us anything useful.

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 [continue reading...]

Perhaps while I am waiting for Max to suggest what is missing from the PDO correlation with temperature trends over the last 160 years I may take the liberty of suggesting that in respect of the overall upwards trend in temperature, despite the PDO oscillations [sic], that ENSO asymmetry adequately explains the [slight] temperature increase over that period; see the David Stockwell comment on the McLean et al paper for an overview of such non-linear asymmetry:

Despite much of the mainstream media harping on about the «compensation culture» that is taking over the UK, the NHS figures show that the number of new claims actually fell by 2.5 % last year, totalling 10,686 over that period.

7) In view of the fact that it has been five years since the last review of the assessment of healthsystem costs owed by the auto insurance sector despite the significant increase in health - care costs related to automobile accidents over the same period, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario should work with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health and Long - Term Care, and the insurance industry to review the adequacy of the current assessment amount.

Because this year's model is no thinner than last year's, I still found the 46 mm version, despite the improved brushed metal case and relocated two o'clock power button, too big to wear for long periods.

In its most recent financial report, issued today, Huawei reported H1 smartphone revenue is up 40 % over the same period last year, despite a recent downturn.

Despite seven years of construction growth, Herbert says the U.S. has still added less new housing over the last decade than in any other 10 - year period going back to at least the 1970s.

Despite the rise however, the homeownership rate is 0.2 percent below the rate of 64.0 percent last year during the same period.