Sentences with phrase «same year before»

This year's data show a slight decline in the number of American adults who read print books: 63 % of American adults say they read at least one book in print in the past year, compared with 69 % who said the same the year before and 71 % in 2011.

In addition, Sen. - elect Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who ran the agency under the first President Bush, testified that same year before a House committee and urged Congress to eliminate the department.

This is the first time in a while that I think I might crash and burn (last year I went a mighty 22/24, the same the year before) and might be marking up a score card under 20.

At least we ended the season with a strong finish......... it was the same thing last year......... the same the year before that......... Wenger needs to be honest with himself.......

To that point, 51 percent of graduates from the classes of 2014 and 2015 said they are working in jobs that do not require their college degree, up from 41 percent of graduates who reported the same the year before that.

Not exact matches

Geologists said before 2009, the state historically averaged 1.5 earthquakes of magnitude - 3 or greater each year, and is now experiencing 2.5 earthquakes of the same magnitudes each day.

• According to the same report, 21 per cent of Canadians who purchased their home before 1990 still haven't paid it off after more than 27 years, while one per cent of Canadians who purchased homes between 2014 and 2016 have negative equity in their property.

Nearly 90 percent of lottery winners go through their winnings in five years or less, leaving them back in the same situation they were in before they won.

In 2009, Canada's exports fell 28 % from the year before because of the crisis in the U.S., yet at the same time our exports to China actually rose 7 %.

Canopy's earnings before interest, tax and other items was a loss of $ 7.1 million, compared to a loss of $ 1.4 million during the same period a year ago.

A few years ago he noticed that reporters interviewing Olympic athletes before and after competing were all asking the same question.

«I'm exactly the same person I was eight years ago, before Shark Tank,» she says.

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

The $ 64.5 billion invested by VCs in these startups was 25 % higher than the same period the year before and 92 % higher than two years ago.

Total net flight bookings to the U.S. between January 28 and February 4 are down 6.5 percent compared to the same period the year before, according to data from travel analysts ForwardKeys.

In Q3 2013, Motorola revenues were $ 1.18 billion, down from $ 1.78 billion for the same quarter a year before.

More recently the company has regained its footing and its fiscal 2017 to date is showing sales growth over the same period the year before.

Yet if a same - sex couple had lived together for 18 years before being allowed to legally marry in 2015 and decides to divorce today, whether that union began two years or two decades ago is not legally clear.

At the beginning of the every new year and even a little bit before then, everyone has the same theme, or at least they think so.

Ford Credit saw earnings before taxes rise 33 percent over the same quarter last year, to $ 641 million, but the company now expects full - year EBT to be flat or lower than last year.

Microsoft's $ 20.5 billion in revenue is down more than $ 1 billion from the same period a year before, depressed by continued decline in its Windows consumer licensing business.

It took Marianna Zanetti a full year after graduation before landing a job at exactly the same salary she was earning three years earlier without an MBA.

In Q4 2012, the company took 1,055 new orders, a dramatic increase over the nine new orders it received in the same quarter the year before.

Pesos now account for between 5 to 10 percent of sales, and same - store sales are accelerating, up 34.5 percent year over year for the first 10 weeks of 2007 — versus 30 percent for the quarter before the promotion.

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

Thanks to a $ 61 million restructuring charge, the company's net income was $ 143 million, down from $ 174 million in the same quarter the year before.

As the government's own expert panel report on competition said five years ago, those same companies need to «take the puck to the other end of the rink» and start growing outward, internationally, before it's too late.

The calendar flips to January, and you often just retain the same benefits you did the year before.

Marc Scott, a portfolio manager at American Century Investments, says that the warm weather in 2012 caused demand to fall by 12 % from the same period the year before.

I tried to describe to my brother, who was also a test pilot — we had the same astronaut training, I just happened to fly in space about two years before he did — and I tried to explain to him for a couple year, «Hey, this is what this is like.

Contrary to Trump's and Republicans» claims that Page became a subject of scrutiny only because of the dossier and his work on the Trump campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported last week the Page had been on counterintelligence officials» radar since 2013 — more than three years before he joined the campaign, and the same year he sent the letter touting his Russia connections.

The share of those between the ages of 25 and 34 who were employed in September was 75 % — the same as September of last year and below levels seen before the housing bubble started inflating job numbers.

In all, auto sales rose 27 percent from the same month a year before, with General Motors posting particularly strong gains due to sales incentives.

Household formation rose by 1.7 million in the fourth quarter from the year before, and increased 1.5 million in the first quarter from the same time frame in 2014, according to the Commerce Department.

Those homes went fast, sitting on the market for an average of 83 days — 40 less than over the same period the year before.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

I have the same goal, a bit before the end of the year 40 % of my expected future expenses covered by my real estate investment.

But the real story is that this particular trader was running the same manipulative scheme for five years before getting caught.

The same IMF report above concluded «G - 20 emerging economies will remain an engine of growth, but the rate of expansion is expected to drop to 5.6 percent this year from 7.1 percent in 2011, before rebounding to 6.2 percent in 2013.

The result: Connecticut income tax revenue plunged by nearly $ 281 million, more than 14 percent, compared with the same month a year before.

Canopy's earnings before interest, tax, and other items, however, was a net loss of $ 7.1 million, compared to a net loss of $ 1.4 million during the same period a year ago.

Buffalo Wild Wings also reduced its full - year financial guidance to call for same - restaurant sales declines of 2 % to 1 % (compared to growth of 1 % previously), and adjusted earnings per diluted share in the range of $ 4.50 to $ 5.00 (down from $ 5.45 to $ 5.90 before).

Over the years, i have met individuals with brilliant business ideas but surprising enough, they don't know what to do with such ideas and before you know it, someone else picks this same idea and make millions out of it.

Operating profit before tax rose 39 % to ₤ 67m thanks to annuity sales growth of 19 % to ₤ 742m and a significant rise in new business profit margin, to 8.9 % from 5.0 % in the same period last year.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

Months before the company went public in 2012, Facebook started featuring «sponsored story» ads in users» feeds, and it rolled out mobile advertising that same year.

Nevertheless, the gain left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have held for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed wants to see before lifting benchmark borrowing costs.

Specifically, it reported sales that were 8 % higher than the same period the year before.

In the midst of the Great Depression, Federal Reserve board member Adolph Miller looked back on the same error in the years before the 1929 peak.

Gold production has been more or less the same from a year before overall, but Weighted - average all - in sustaining costs, or AISC, were down about 7 % in the June quarter to US$ 845 / oz.