Sentences with phrase «same quarter in the previous year»

According to research analysts at investment bank Versant Partners Inc., U.S. software expenditures in the third quarter of 2011 grew by 6.6 % over the same quarter in the previous year, the highest growth rate in the last four - and - a-half-years.

While the NOOK division losses increased by $ 6million and the College division losses increased by $ 2million, the retail earnings increased by 2 % over the same quarter in the previous year for a total revenue of $ 1.1 billion.

Actual earnings came in at around only $ 329 million, down from $ 797 million in the same quarter in the previous year.

Figures gathered by law firm Hugh James show a divorce case lasted an average of 23.9 weeks in the first quarter of 2014 — two weeks longer than the same quarter in the previous year.