Sentences with phrase «period than the prior year»

Strategy Analytics published some similar numbers indicating Samsung sold only 75.3 million phones, or 8.5 million fewer in the period than the prior year:

Not exact matches

Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

The bank's attributable profit for the first quarter stood at # 792 million ($ 1.1 billion), compared with # 259 million for the prior year period, and was better than the # 534 million expected in a Reuters poll.

Adjusted EPS decreased 1.1 percent to $ 0.90, mainly reflecting growth in Adjusted EBITDA that was more than offset by a higher effective tax rate versus the prior year period.

Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $ 0.04, up from a loss of $ 0.04 in the prior - year period and $ 0.08 higher than analysts were expecting.

Wal - Mart said it earned 98 cents a share during the fiscal third quarter, slightly lower than 99 cents a share in the prior - year period.

As a researcher focused on an earlier period, she was more comfortable than some of her peers in accepting that domestication prior to the advent of agriculture — roughly 12,000 years ago — was even possible.

Men who produced ejaculates with less than four percent normal sperm were nearly twice as likely to have produced a sample in the summer months (June to August), or if they were younger than 30 years old, to have used cannabis in the three month period prior to ejaculation.

But the average rate of ice thinning in West Antarctica has also increased, and this sector is now losing almost one third (31 %) as much ice each year than it did during the five year period (2005 - 2010) prior to CryoSat - 2's launch.

Conversely, within non-diabetic populations, periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases insulin secretion, can precede the onset of T2DM by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic) insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70

Here are some thoughts about my experience working with Nicole: — periods started to get less painful once I realized that endometriosis was probably at the center of the issue — I was sleeping better than I had in years before I got pregnant and even through most of my pregnancy, I'm assuming due to the changes I made to diet / nutrition / vitamins — There were several times in the year prior to conceiving our daughter that I felt like I was pregnant and then had a horrible period a week after my expected period.

After a bad start last year, domestic box office over the 12 months prior to CinemaCon 2012 grew more than 6 % over the same period in the previous year.

(1) in a secondary school having an enrollment of less than 100 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one period in each school day to school library work; (2) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 100 and 299 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least two periods in each school day to school library work; (3) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 300 and 499 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one - half of each school day to school library work; (4) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 500 and 699 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least five periods in each school day to school library work; and (5) in a secondary school having an enrollment of 700 or more students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote the full school day to school library work.

(1) in a secondary school having an enrollment of less than 100 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one period in each school day to school library work; (2) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 100 and 299 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least two periods in each school day to school library work; (3) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 300 and 499 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least one - half of each school day to school library work; (4) in a secondary school having an enrollment of between 500 and 699 students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote at least five periods in each school day to school library work; and (5) in a secondary school having an enrollment of 700 or more students on October 15 of the prior school year, devote the full school day to school library work.

Since 2012, there has been USD 1.3 trillion [2] of U.S. high - yield corporate debt issued — more than the total amount issued in the prior 10 - year period (2002 - 2011).

an indicator of how long a security position or lot was held; possible values are Long: held for more than 1 year; Non-Reportable: lot or position was closed as the result of a transaction other than a sale; no reportable gain / loss was reported, the holding period and resulting term are not reported; Short: held for 1 year or less; and Unknown: Fidelity does not know how long the position or lot was held; this state typically exists because the shares were transferred to Fidelity from another institution and the holding period prior to the transfer was not communicated; for fixed - income securities, this is the period of time from the security's issue date until the maturity date; for example, for a 10 - year corporate bond the term is 10 years

For example, an EBRI study showed that nearly 25 % of 401 (k) participants 56 to 65 years of age had more than 90 % of their account balances in equities just prior to the 2008 financial crisis, a period during which stock prices dropped by nearly 60 %.

With mortgage rates near their historic lows, fixed rate home mortgages are likely going to be a much better deal if you plan on living in the house for an extended period of time, as when rates reset on ARM loans the prior short - term savings will likely be more than offset by the higher rates for the duration of the loan, which can cause the interest - only loan payment to exceed the amoritizing 30 year fixed rate payments if mortgage rates spike high enough.

And rather than measuring each stock's momentum over the past year, you only look at the period ranging from 12 months to two months prior to the stock's purchase date.

Timely Cancellations: Your deposit, less 5 %, will be refunded provided we receive notice of cancellation not less than 30 days prior to arrival, and 60 days for the period overlapping Christmas or New Years.

Figure 1 shows two prior interglacial periods that were warmer than the Holocene: the Eemian (about 130,000 years ago) and the Holsteinian (about 400,000 years ago).

As the chart reveals, today's per century trends are dominated by cooling for the different time periods; today's trends are multiple times below prior period, historical highs; the 5, 8 and 10 - year trends are definitely below the average modern trend (1950 through 2013); and all the trends are significantly less than those reached 15 years ago (see black dotted lines for year - end 1998 trend levels).

In the prior inter-glacial period about 125,000 years ago, there was no summer ice at the North Pole and the sea level was over 15 feet (5m) higher than today.

With that said, when the anomalies for the 10 - year period prior to February 1996 and February 2014 are compared, one finds that the later anomalies were, on average, +0.3 °C higher than those of the earlier 10 - year period.

These graphs indicate that for the UAH satellite data there has been statistically significant warming for periods longer than 23 years with a starting date prior to about 1993 (until the present).

The warming for the 20 years prior to 2005 appears to be at a greater rate of warming for a 20 year period than for the latter years of all RCP scenarios and even RCP 8.5.

Coal additions in 2010 were larger than has been typical during the 2005 - 2009 period; while for natural gas, there was no great departure from activity over the prior five years.

More recently, in the prior period between ice ages, just 125,000 years ago, the Earth also was much warmer than today and the sea level much higher - by about 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 meters)(IPCC).

In the prior inter-glacial period about 125,000 years ago, there was no summer ice at the North Pole and the sea level was 15 feet (5m) higher than today.

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: -LSB-...] A person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.

Any such policy that permits destruction within much less than ten years after an event probably fails to take reasonable account of the standard six year limitation period under the Limitations Act for actions in tort or contract, plus some period to allow for a discoverability period, which allows for discovery of the damage and those responsible prior to the commencement of the limitation period.

Global M&A activity was 18 % lower in the first quarter of 2016 than in the same period the prior year *.

The company banked $ 2.91 billion in revenue during that period, an increase of more than 34 % compared to the same time a year prior.

Issuing the remarks as the company unveiled its fourth - quarter earnings for 2017, Colette Kress said the company banked $ 2.91 billion in revenue during that period, an increase of more than 34 % compared to the same time a year prior.

(2b) Have complete an SDSBD - approved educational course more than 13 months prior to application and have legally administered nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia for a period of time during the three years preceding application and provide written documentation from an employing / supervising dentist attesting to clinical proficiency.

(2b) Have completed an SDSBD - approved educational course in anesthetic assisting of at least eight hours more than 13 months prior to application and have legally monitored patients receiving analgesic or anesthetic agents for a period of time during the two years preceding application and provide written documentation from an employing / supervising dentist attesting to clinical proficiency.

The finding of temperamental sociability as a predictor of late dissolutions only was in line with previous findings of extraversion being associated with dissolutions more than 25 years into marriage, but not prior to this period (Kelly and Conley [1987]-RRB-.

• Reverse a policy made in a prior Administration to cancel required premium payments after a certain period that effectively meant that while FHA's 100 % insurance guarantee remained in effect for the 30 - year life of a loan, borrowers were only required to pay premiums for less than ten years.