Sentences with phrase «rather than the previous month»

When we report on changes in home sales we typically compare current sales to the previous year rather than the previous month to avoid comparing changes that have more to do with seasonal swings in the demand for houses.

Not exact matches

The final week is seeing a similar surge — but, unlike previous years, 2017 open enrollment is just six weeks rather than three months.

It also appears that the ECB will concentrate on reducing its purchases of government (rather than corporate) bonds, but here issuance is increasing, with the net amount of eurozone government debt set to expand in 2018, in contrast to the contraction seen over the previous 18 months.

They add, rather ominously, While the initial shift into «Slowdown» (which we first noted in October) had a fairly idiosyncratic flavor, the recent growth deceleration now looks more serious than in previous months.

More important, the previous two months of employment gains were revised upwards: February job growth was estimated to be 332,000 rather than 268,000, and March job growth was revised from 88,000 to 138,000.

The context of the speech was the previous month's riots across England, largely perpetrated by groups and gangs of apparently nihilistic youth, who seemed on the whole to be enjoying themselves rather than protesting about anything - except perhaps the meaningless of the world - view bequeathed to them.

«This compares to an upwardly revised figure of 3.0 per cent growth in the previous twelve months when government policies were supporting rather than undermining the economic recovery.»

In a couple months, a reality TV show star will be inaugurated, due in large part to the American people just being able to recognize him at all, rather than choosing him as the best choice because of his previous accomplishments.

Stay in touch on a regular basis, rather than sending out a very long email with all your news from the previous six months.

In the 1960s he began employing brighter colors and scraping down entire canvases rather than working on top of previous attempts, thus beginning the entire image afresh at each session and often spending months or years on a single painting.

Please note, however, that as the print is being produced in such a limited number - and previous special edition prints by Rolfe have historically sold out in less than a month - it would be much safer to purchase Twelve Stars sooner rather than later.

This is up two points from the previous six months and it comes with caveats — 52 percent said they expect to fill only vacant positions, rather than create new jobs, though just 2 % said they'd cut staff.

In this build, Microsoft has cleared most of the bugs found in previous releases, which coincides with the news that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is already feature - complete and we should see only improvements and fixes, rather than new features in the next two months before the global release.