Sentences with phrase «season than last season»

Could all conspire to give Spurs a much much tougher season than last season.

Zenit have in fact performed slightly worse this season than last season, which saw Mircea Lucescu sacked.

The only english club that had a more successful season than us last season was Chelsea, and the season before that City.

With Chelsea, Man U and City struggling, we will still likely get fewer points this season than last season.

Not exact matches

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

BT streamed both finals last season on YouTube for the first time, increasing the number of people who watched its live coverage to more than 12 million.

Seasoned deal - maker Walsh was much quicker than rival full - service airlines Air France - KLM and Lufthansa to embrace budget flying, buying short - haul carrier Vueling in 2015 and setting up IAG's own long - haul low - cost carrier Level last year.

When you finish the last page it's infinitely worse than when the season of your current Netflix binge abruptly ends.

Within two hours of Jeter's announcement that 2014 will be his last season, the average ticket price for the Yankees» last regular - season game — scheduled for Sept. 28 against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park — jumped more than 160 percent to $ 803.

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

The Sixers have blatantly tanked for high draft picks the last two seasons, and don't seem any closer to competing for a playoff spot than they did two year ago when master - tanker Sam Hinkie was hired as GM.

This team can only go as far as Flacco can take it, yet he has completed less than 55 % of his passes in the last three losses, compared to 60.2 % the rest of the season.

Amazon may also be facing an increased sales burden from Main Street retail competitors lasting throughout the entire holiday shopping season, with almost half of Amazon Prime members saying they'll spend more than 50 percent of their holiday shopping dollars at small businesses, either online or in - store.

Ticket sales for the upcoming NHL season have decreased by roughly 72 % on the resale market compared with last season, based on estimates from SeatGeek, a ticket search engine that compiles data from more than 100 resale sites.

The Gap's travails have persisted in 2015, with Peck suggesting on a conference call last month that efforts to renew the brand won't pay off until the spring, months later than his original prediction that a turnaround could take hold in time for the holiday season.

But by last September, just months before the crucial holiday season, relentless competition from Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. — combined with more than $ 5 billion in debt from a 2005 leveraged buyout — had finally overwhelmed the chain.

The newer console did get a sales bump this holiday season thanks to new Zelda and Mario games, but sales were amazingly lower than last year.

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

In the decade leading up to the last lockout, the average NHL salary increased by more than three times, totalling $ 1.83 million for the 2003 - 04 season, according to a 2005 article in the journal Monthly Labor Review.

Gallup sees Americans spending an estimated $ 704 per household on Christmas gifts this season — quite a bit lower than the $ 770 they forecast last year.

But at least one rule change appears to have improved the numbers: touchbacks have only resulted in 17 to 20 concussions over the last several years, about half the injuries compared with pre-2011 seasons when that play moved the ball to the 20 - yard rather than 25 - yard line.

Ellison said Penney's website offered 70 % more items this holiday season than last and that each Penney store contributed to supporting its e-commerce.

Prices this season are marginally better than last year, when they dipped to less than $ 3 a pound.

That's an all - time high, and 6 % higher than last year's fall season, but it's less of an uptick than the pumpkin products saw the year before (10 % growth).

If the H1Z1 Pro League doesn't last more than 10 weeks and is not renewed for a second season, then these gamers who have spent countless hours practicing and perfecting their skill for the particular game played will be required to learn a brand new game in the same genre or otherwise.

Over the last decade, the number of mentions of the millennial generation on quarterly corporate earnings calls has jumped from just one in all of 2007 to more than 100 in the most recent earnings season alone, according to Thomson Reuters data.

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But, with Hurricane Harvey devastating Houston just last month, many of us seasoned Floridians took Hurricane Irma's threat a little more seriously than we normally would.

While topping analysts» estimates for profit, the company reported a same - store sales decline of 6 percent for the last quarter, which included the crucial Holiday season, signalling that a comeback under new chief executive Patrice Louvet may be tougher than expected.

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Glass Lewis» compensation team has engaged with more than 300 North American companies since last proxy season, with the goal of increasing our understanding of the challenges that companies face when designing incentive awards.

In 1978, he pitched one final season for the Atlanta Braves when he was a year older than R.A. Dickey was last season.

Put another way, it's more than $ 7 billion higher than the $ 78.4 billion of record revenue Apple garnered last holiday season.

Customers asked Alexa for cooking related advice more than nine times as much this year compared to last holiday season.

Thanks to the odd and extended heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest, which seems to honestly have lasted all summer long, our berry season started earlier than usual — but that means, it has been ending earlier than usual.

Even though the winter offers less of a variety of fruit than other seasons, it still provides some wonderful jewels to enjoy as long as they last.

It's easier than you think and will make the strawberry season last even longer.

Last year, the company provided complete turkey dinners to more than 50 local families for Thanksgiving and collected gifts for children during the Holiday season for another 100 families.

«The drought in the third quarter has been more severe and lasted longer than anyone might have predicted, and means we are currently forecasting total milk collection volumes for the full season to finish in line with last season,» said Fonterra chairman, John Wilson.

If I'm using a powdered seasoning, other than salt and pepper, to flavor a veggie or protein headed to the oven, I like to sprinkle it on last.

«We've been a meat free club for the last three seasons — it sounds much harder than it is,» Vince said.

I live for this season, granted it lasts about two whole weeks here — it's better than skipping it altogether.

In Timor Leste, for example, the annual «hungry season» when food is hard to come by lasts more than five months — yet farmers lose up to 30 per cent of their stored maize every year to rodents and weevils.

Released just last month from DeCapo / Lifelong, Soup's On: More than 100 quick and easy recipes for every season demonstrates Reinfeld's passion for simple cooking and healthy indulgence.

LIVERMORE John Concannon, Fourth - Generation Vintner, Concannon Vineyard This year's harvest started about a week earlier than last year's due to a warmer summer and a drier spring, giving us a nearly perfect growing season.

If you're inspired to make this season a bit more special and memorable than last year, Pocky, the iconic chocolate - covered biscuit stick, has a Pocky Strawberry Cake recipe that's sure to impress the most important people in your life.