Sentences with phrase «similar period last year»

St. Louis - based The May Department Stores Co. reported preliminary net retail sales of $ 925.5 million for the four - week period ended Nov. 2, 2002, a 3.8 % decrease from $ 961.7 million in the similar period last year...

Data from Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows that the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia between January and August this year is higher compared to similar period last year as it went from 7,356,310 to 9,245,589 people or increased by 25.68 percent.

Senate and Assembly lawmakers combined spent less on per diems in 2011 so far than over a similar period last year, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Law.

Not exact matches

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

I can totally relate to that as I have been through quite a similar period over the last two years!

If you want to paint a picture to compare Giroud to Rooney paint it over a similar time what that guy was doing earlier was averaged his goal ratio over Rooney's 11 year period in the league instead of the last 3 years in which Giroud played in the BPL, Oh on Average in the last 3 season Now Rooney has just scored 23.3 Goals a season to Girouds 15..

This ban will last for two years, with the second year suspended for a three - year period (to be activated in the event of any further similar breach by the club).

While the total amount de Blasio raised in the last six months is roughly similar to the net contributions he's posted in recent filing periods, the average donation size has fallen off precipitously over the past year.

As a candidate for governor last year, Mr. Cuomo said, «Raising taxes is not an option — period,» and he made similar pledges at his inauguration and in his State of the State address.

Less than one in four have returned to his room this year, an improvement over a similar time period last year, he said.

He also mentioned that last year Indonesia - Australia routes had experienced a passenger growth rate of 17 percent compared to a similar period in 2015.

Although the sales is in off season during the first quarter, the revenue is similar compared with the same period last year.

-- which by the way is an argument for why the Ruddiman hypothesis for an «expected» ice age is not valid - we should be «expecting» a 40,000 year warm period similar to what was recently discovered at Vostok for the time ~ 400,000 years ago when we were last at this point in the eccentricity cycle!)

Over very long time periods such that the carbon cycle is in equilibrium with the climate, one gets a sensitivity to global temperature of about 20 ppm CO2 / deg C, or 75 ppb CH4 / deg C. On shorter timescales, the sensitivity for CO2 must be less (since there is no time for the deep ocean to come into balance), and variations over the last 1000 years or so (which are less than 10 ppm), indicate that even if Moberg is correct, the maximum sensitivity is around 15 ppm CO2 / deg C. CH4 reacts faster, but even for short term excursions (such as the 8.2 kyr event) has a similar sensitivity.

But looking back over the last 30 or so years, I see other periods of time that had similar «lulls», but afterward the long - term upward trend always resumed.

The worst that could result from not spending the $ 700 billion — and might result even if it is spent — is that the USA will fall into a depression that could last four or five years (in which case the rest of the world will probably go into a recession for a similar period).

Our present warm period has been relatively mellow for the last 8,000 years, with fewer fluctuations than any other similar period in the climate record.

The DECC used to show the actual temp data CET data set graph (still only 150 years of it) on the DECC website, but following Phil Jones stating in that BBC interview, 3 similar warming periods, and rates of warming in the last 150 years and that you could clearly see this on the graph, the pronouncement by the DECC that this graph showed «unprecedented» man made global warming, seemed ridiculous.

So, hypothetically, how would it be possible for global cooling start to start and last for a similar time period (~ 130 years)?

Nine years down the track there have been many papers from different groups using different methods and proxies that generally converge on the conclusion that the (NH / global) temperature of the last few decades is likely warmer than for any similar period in the last millennium.

What is more, the Sun has been more active and for longer over the last 70 years than at almost any previous similar period over the past 11,400 years since the end of the last ice age.

Also, some proxies show here that the last 3 million years, p.CO2 often could be similar — or higher — than the present (also in the period in which we have data from ice cores).

The MWP lasted 400 years, the Modern warm period at similar levels around 30 years with a hiatus, so the modern warm period may well have a long time to run.

But what has happened over the last 20 years with more summer melting has been observed before and you can find scare stories in newspapers similar to todays, all quoting arctic scientists or explorers in 3 - 4 different periods in the last 120 years.

Our planet very likely experienced similar warm periods over the last 10000 years without any ill effect.

In a decision on a preliminary issue released September 7, 2017, Vice Chair Trojek of the LAT held that a catastrophically impaired Applicant missed the two year limitation period to dispute the Insurer's refusal to pay housekeeping and attendant care benefits, coming to the same conclusion ADR Chambers came to in a similar case last year (Mayo v. Economical Mutual Insurance Co., [2016] O.F.S.C.D. No. 342 (QL).

As the name suggest, this is a single premium insurance plan with limited period option, similar to LIC Jeevan Shagun plan launched last year end.

«Some metropolitan areas that had previously charted marginal home - price gains dropped off the list this time as a result of typically softer prices seen in the winter months, which is similar to what the index showed in this same period last year.»