Sentences with phrase «season than last year»

The report — based on a survey of leading graduate employers — found that, on average, companies have received 19 % more applications during the early part of this year's recruitment season than last year.

The organization noted that more people are traveling this season than last year due to «an improving economy and sub-inflation air fares.»

Local ski areas are experiencing a much better start to the season than last year, when record low snowfall occurred.

«I think we'll have as good or better a season than last year,» says Hadl, «if we stay healthy and keep our heads.

But the reality is that every other team got better and with a similar amount of points at this stage of the season than last year we're outside the top 4.

Captain and Goalie Jeff Iversen has helped revamp the Roster and they are looking to have a much more successful season than last year.

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 %.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Arsenal are finishing the season with a flourish, with 7 wins in our last 8 games, so is he happy that his side are performing at the right time: «We won more games than last year, because we already have one point more than last year.»

The way I see it, we're guaranteed more goals this season with Theo back — the wings miss him, and he is sure to get more goals and assists than whatever options we kept playing last year whether it be Ramsey, Wilshere or Ozil.

Last season he averaged more than 20 minutes for the first time in his five years — a mark he barely eclipsed (20.8) for the last - place LakLast season he averaged more than 20 minutes for the first time in his five years — a mark he barely eclipsed (20.8) for the last - place Laklast - place Lakers.

There were fewer intentional walks last year (932) than there have been in any season since the strike in 1981, but, sure, getting rid of the walk will make every other game go quicker, on average.

Also, Wilshire had an ok season last year out on loan but we need to sign a player who did better than OK at Bournemouth.

«I don't have a precise target [for the new season] but I always want to improve, so I want to score more goals than last year.

He's earning less than $ 6 million per season through 2020, and if we get to July and he's continued his second - half surge from last year, he would be one of the more valuable trade commodities in baseball.

The 18 - year - old is one of the most exciting young players in Europe at the moment and more than a few eyebrows were raised when Mourinho engaged in a long and enthusiastic conversation after last season's Europa League final.

Here's a few things to remind you why it's silly: The Rangers won 10 games in a row last year, there were two week stretches of last season where the Angels were better than the Astros, the Angels have yet to play a serious contender, as already stated the Reds were 1st in the NL Central to start the season, the Brewers were in first until a little bit after the all start break (if I remember correctly), literally thousands of other examples of teams starting hot and then finishing outside of the playoffs.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seattle Seahawks, the last two expansion teams, went a combined 2 - 26 in» 76, their first NFL season; but the talent that will be available to, say, the St. Louis Beer Bottles and Baltimore Crabcakes two years from now should be considerably better than what was offered to the Bucs and the Seahawks.

«We know we can do better than the two consecutive seasons (at Chelsea) before and I think we will try new things on Sunday to get a better result than last year.»

WVU is coming off a solid season and inked a lot of interesting transfers but has to replace more of last year's production than any other power conference team.

I guess Theo will have a bad season as he didn't do too bad last season but I hope I am wrong and Theo is better this year than last.

The 24 - year old from Argentina came through the academy system at Arsenal and may well have thought he might never break through into the first team after being sent out on loan to no less than four different clubs, the latest being for the whole of last season with Wolves in the Championship.

Even the title I have put at the top of this post could be seen as a bit on the harsh side on the 28 - year old, as he scored 19 goals for the Gunners last season, at a ratio of just better than one every other game, and he already has three for the new season so far, despite being well down the pecking order of forward players available to the boss.

to sell season tickets and other sales, but at the end like this year, they spend 10M on Che, and sold quite few players, released some and Loaned out a bunch, brought the salary and wages down even lower than the year before, yet they lie like a dog that they are still in the market until the last day.

This man has had this group of players for more than two years, with a couple of recent additions, so to all who believe the team is getting better, could you please give me, your reasons for believing and show me how have we improved from last season?

Bellerin signed a new contract only last summer, but following another great season, which ended with him earning a place in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year, he is more than worthy of improved terms.

Of players with 30 + goals and less than 200 shots on goal in a single season in the last 20 years, Giroux and Joe Thornton in 2002 - 03 are the only to score over 100 points.

And last year: Cleveland finished the regular season with a defense even worse than this season's Cavs.

That feels so wrong, given that Wisconsin won 11 games two years ago in the same season Michigan won five and missed a bowl game, given that Wisconsin won at least nine games in six of its last seven seasons while Michigan has done it just twice, given that only Ohio State has won more games than Wisconsin among Big Ten teams this century.

FACT: In just one season at United, Zlatan Ibrahimovic won more trophies than Liverpool have in the last TEN years?

Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap since our last successful campaign now more than 12 years.

They are certainly a lot closer than Arsenal this season, and they were last season too in fact, but they are a very long way from challenging Man City just yet, and it is still ten years since they won a trophy of any kind, so they can hardly start bragging about being a bigger team than Arsenal just yet.