Sentences with phrase «shorter than last year»

The Chrysler LHS is a bit shorter than last year's model, though you'd never know it from interior and trunk space.

Both models are 1 - 2 mm shorter than last year's models, a direct effect of shrinking that bottom screen bezel just a tad bit.

The bezels have been very slightly shaved off making the Galaxy S9 Plus slightly shorter than last year's model.

This year, the most common duration for 0 - percent introductory offers was a year — three months shorter than last year's 15 months.

Plus the slight difference in aspect ratio makes the HD Kindle's screen about an eight of an inch wider and an eight of an inch shorter than last year's Fire.

The S9 is slightly shorter than last year's S8, but you get the same 5.8 - inch screen thanks to the smaller bezels surrounding the display.

Not exact matches

Japan's short - term yields, of less than three years, turned negative last year, and earlier this month, the five - year JGB slipped close to zero several times.

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.

Fidelity Online infidelity facilitators Ashley Madison, whose cheeky slogan is» Life is short, have an affair,» helped more would - be adulterers find partners online than ever before last year, despite the recession.

Last year, Hyundai launched its first mass - market pure electric car IONIQ, but the vehicle's per - charge driving range is much shorter than offerings from Tesla and GM.

The recession in Canada lasted just eight months, far shorter than the United States» projected two - year slog or even Canada's own recessions in the early»80s and»90s.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

Kynikos Associates, with more than $ 2 billion in assets under management, saw its short - only fund down 12 percent last year, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Paul falls short on offering a timeline, but last August he estimated a correction could be less than a year away.

Yields on U.S. 30 - year bonds, which are more sensitive than shorter maturities to the outlook for inflation, have jumped almost 40 basis points since last Friday and a $ 15 billion auction of the tenor on Thursday showed waning appetite for the securities.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

It added, «tens of millions of Prime members» rang up purchases during the event, up more than 50 percent from last year's shorter Prime Day.

The Fed has made good on two interest rate hikes so far in 2017, but based on weaker - than - forecast inflation and growth numbers, it will likely fall short of the four rate hikes it planned late last year.

On the short - side of the yield curve, the consensus seems to interpret the Federal Open Market Committee's recent use of the word «gradual» as an indication that it will allow inflation to run higher than 2 % in order to make up for the last 20 years of below - target growth.

Here's the short answer: Statewide, California home prices are expected to continue rising in 2017, but less than they rose last year.

The Fed revealed last week that it expects to raise rates twice this year, possibly as soon as April, which makes short - term munis more attractive since they're less sensitive to rate adjustments than longer - term debt.

All property listings were 8.7 per cent higher than the same month last year, 18.9 per cent higher than the 10 - year average, and fell just short of the high for the month of November.

Jonathan, whose earnings power is that of a «Playmaker,» needs his portfolio to support his lifestyle over a retirement that could last more than 50 years, given the Playmakers» generally shorter career and lower earnings potential compared with their Blue Chip teammates.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

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.

This squad's run was cut short last year and I think they have plans to play a few more games this Summer than last.

I saw a bunch of times last year where Witten ran a route than he'd routinely get a 1st down in the past that was a yard or so short of the sticks.

1) GK — better 2) LB — same, possibly better if Gibbs improves, Monreal has plateaued 3) RB — better as Bellerin will only improve 4) CB first pairing — same, as the BFG is getting older but he can't get shorter or slower, 5) CB second pairing — better since we didn't have a pair last year 6) DM — better as Arteta is now back up and Coquelin should get even better 7) Box to box — better if you think Ramsey and Wilshire still have room to improve and are still being kept out by Carloza 8) LW — better, Sanchez might not get too much better but Welbeck is an improvement on Podolski 9) RW — same if Theo moves up front but Ox and Gnabry have lots of room to improve 10) CAM — same 11) Striker — better as Giroud / Theo is stronger than Giroud / Sanogo

Wilshere needs another manager to improve... I have a lot of time for him but he stands around too much waiting for ball whereas before he used to hunt for the ball... but whatever happens we are 6 players short of a quality team... years of penny pinching and over indulging crap players by a clueless manager who is a legend in his own mind... people go on about guardiolas spending in the summer but the team we are now watching play the best football in epl history only has 2 new additions from last year Emerson and walker... I guess mendy would start if fit... we have 2 new players too but we are further behind than ever!!

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

The day after acquiring Yu Darvish at the trade deadline, the Dodgers were +225 to win the World Series — significantly shorter odds than the Cubs had at the same time last year.

Guys why are we comparing arsenal to barca i love arsenal it my club but i must be realistic barca is lite years infront of us look at the champions league last year no match they have won the champions league twice in the last five years and the last one with kids just like arsenal so its not about how young players are because if your good enough your old enough and am afraid the arsenal youngsters walcott, deneilson, nasri, diaby, bendtner, even the great vanpercy who all arsenal fans rate who as i mentioned before (Has not scored a free kick in god knows how long) world class right these players so far have not been good enoughso do nt blame injuries too much do nt blame refs look at the way arsenal do things something is wrong here is a prime example eboue joined arsenal in the 2004/2005 season to date now tell me that a long time right would you say he is a much better player than when he arrived i think no he has improved but only very little and thats the point football is a short business at a big club you spend three seasons for the most and then you must perform.

The short answer is «better than last season `, but that's a bit of a cop out answer, so here we go — I think we'll finish second, which is highest I've predicted since I started doing these a few years ago.

Short term they can get away with not letting him anywhere near the press but once he gets to the treasury they won't be able to muzzle him and he'll last less than a year.

Last year he singled out planning judicial review by saying cases must be brought within six weeks of any decision rather than the usual three months, knowing it is harder for small community groups to raise money and start complex proceedings in this short space of time.

The state also come up a bit short on its funding for universal pre-kindergarten, providing the same $ 300 million it did last year, less than what the city had requested, though the mayor declined to provide specifics.

In that short time, she has cultivated a relationship with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who invested more than $ 100,000 in her election last year and recently visited her as - yet unfinished district office for a photo - op.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Walsh said in the short term, hiring more cops would be less expensive than buffering the ranks with overtime spending, which surpassed $ 13 million last year.

In polling more than 10,000 voters Lord Ashcroft attempts to examine the different views of Conservative members, long time Conservative supporters, people who voted Conservative for the first time last year and also people who considered voting Conservative but stopped short of doing so.

PHYSICIST Jim Al - Khalili last year promised to eat his boxer shorts live on TV if neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.

In two of them P. perezi has been co-existing with the red swamp crayfish for more than 30 years (populations of long - term coexistence), in another they have been sharing a habitat for 20 years (population of short - term coexistence), while the last two populations are found in an area which has not yet been colonised by the exotic predator (populations without coexistence),» adds the scientist.

In fact, less than 1 / 10th of 1 % of our genes have changed in the last 10,000 years, which is a short time in terms of evolution.

But the concept of a resolution kicking off January first to last the course of an entire calendar year has always felt, to me, like the short - term bandwagon, a practice riddled with higher risk for disappointment than good.

Last year's was a little longer, boxier and overall more oversized than works on my short frame.

So, this was actually the first project that I ever purchased through Darby Smart, but since I was one jumping short, and the last half of the year is always more hectic than the first... I was significantly delayed.

by Walter Chaw Its final cut a full thirty minutes shorter than the one that was shown to widespread derision at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny is laced with melancholy and a crushing sense of loneliness.

Best Short Subject: Steve De Jarnatt's superb film noir takeoff Tarzana had more moxie than most of the new features I saw last year, and was informed enough about the subject of its parody to be fascinating in the same ways the classic straight jobs are.

It's perhaps a contrived set - up (based on David Constantine's short story), but that's the last thing in Haigh's film that's anything less than utterly truthful, particularly when it comes to performances from the two leads that come close to being the best roles of their 50 year careers.

After being filmed in 2005 and languishing in a post-production nightmare for six years, writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's remarkable New York drama Margaret was finally and unceremoniously dumped into just 14 theaters late last year, in a shorter cut than intended.