Sentences with phrase «slightly from last year»

The West and Midwest decreased slightly from last year by 1.0 percent and 1.7 percent respectively.

«The inventory of single - family homes for sale is down slightly from last year, while the average number of days on market is down sharply in both the single - family and condo / townhouse markets.

Scan the list and you'll see that more than half of the companies are operating as major franchise brands, up slightly from last year.

The 2014 average biotech sales salary is down slightly from last year's average income, though the median figures remain the same at $ 155,000.

While this percentage is down slightly from last year, the survey data suggests job satisfaction is still high in medical sales.

Profit per equity partner now stands at # 366,000, up slightly from last year.

Employment law took second, with 50.7 per cent, up slightly from last year's 46 per cent.

That number is down slightly from last year and, stretching back in time, is roughly the same as was measured in a 1995 poll.

The National Retail Federation has released the results of its holiday shopping survey, which estimates consumers will spend an average of $ 689 this year, up slightly from last year's $ 682.

Thanks to his property holdings, Chuong estimates that his net worth is now $ 1.1 million, up slightly from last year.

93 % of parent cosigners felt as if their children's student debt is jeopardizing their retirement (actually down slightly from last year, probably because of recent stock market gains).

While the number of Canadians who contributed is down slightly from last year, the amount that Canadians have contributed has increased.

Up slightly from last year, the redesigned Corvette will begin at $ 51,995, and $ 56,995 for the convertible.

Thsoe numbers are down slightly from last year, but the upside is fuel economy that improves slightly.

Strong Lineup of New Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac Crossovers Drive GM's U.S. Retail Sales Higher Commercial sales up 14 percent; Government sales up 21 percent U.S. daily rental sales down 36 percent per plan Crossover retail sales up 19 percent DETROIT — General Motors (NYSE: GM) today reported May U.S. retail sales of 191,388 vehicles, up slightly from last year.

These costs are up slightly from last year's, and represent additional expenditures many school districts are incurring in transporting more special - needs students and a rapidly escalating school - age population.

Math proficiency in the city was at 7.2 percent, down slightly from last year.

After a sharp increase in the 2008 presidential year and the two years afterward, voter registration in Ulster County will be down slightly from last year when polls open next Tuesday.

So while countries such as Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fell significantly in rank on this year's watch list (Sri Lanka dropped 15 spots to No. 44, and the UAE dropped 14 spots to No. 49), their level of persecution dropped only slightly from last year's list (by four points and two points, respectively, on a 100 - point scale).

This year, however, they have at least one holiday blessing to be thankful for: the cost of a turkey dinner and all the trimmings has risen only slightly from last year.

It sees the economy as likely to expand 3.0 percent this year, slowing slightly from last year's 3.1 percent.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

Not exact matches

There are exceptions; due to geography Philippines Airlines has a slightly shorter, more economical hop to U.S. west coast cities, while Singapore Airlines launched 17.5 hour non stop flights from its Singapore hub to San Francisco last year.

The money paid back to Americans in tax refunds so far this year is now roughly equal to cumulative outlays at this time in the past few years, and just slightly below last year's year - to - date total, alleviating any worrying economic signals coming from the data.

The percentage of households without a car has increased slightly in the last five years, the most recent data from the American Census Bureau shows.

Apple also decided to slightly raise the price of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus from the comparable devices last year.

Jobs increased slightly from last month (0.2 %) to bring us to a year - to - date increase of 4.1 percent and paychecks neither dipped nor rose from June, keeping us at a year - to - date loss of 0.4 percent.

It should be noted, however, that PC shipments plummeted over 10 % year - over-year during the fourth quarter of 2015, which means that although fourth quarter PC shipments fell only slightly in the latest quarter, they're still far from making up for the big drop in shipments last year.

That's down slightly from 21 tech companies last year.

CBS released the total viewership numbers on Monday afternoon, after preliminary ratings from Nielsen showed a 16.0 rating for Sunday's Grammys telecast, which was down slightly from the 16.1 rating notched by last year's Grammy Awards.

Last year the company bought back 14.2 million shares for $ 2 billion, down slightly from years prior.

Despite the stellar performance last year, CEO Larry Young's total pay rose only slightly, from $ 9 million to $ 9.6 million, mostly due to an increase in his cash bonus based on net sales and income from operations.

North American brand capacity in the third quarter is 38 % in the Caribbean, slightly up from a year ago; 24 % in Alaska, slightly higher than a year ago; and 25 % in Europe, which is about the same as last year.

As a well - compensated ~ 28 year old HF professional in NYC from a prestigious top 10 school, these numbers look exactly correct to me and are actually slightly conservative projections of my last 6 years of net wealth.

While Facebook is still rated as the most effective platform overall, confidence in the platform slightly dropped (4 percentage points from last year.)

It sold 3.3 million PlayStation 4 units during the quarter, slightly down from 3.5 million last year.

The fiscal picture has improved slightly since the fall economic update — this year's deficit is forecast to be $ 25.4 billion, down slightly from the $ 27.8 billion expected last fall.

Refinance applications increased only slightly by 0.2 percent from a week ago, but are down 41.5 percent from last year.

This profile is virtually identical to the typical client reported in last year's results, although the age has dropped slightly from the 2016 results.

It recorded a COR of 92 per cent, down slightly from 92.4 per cent last year.

Net losses were down by about 60 % from year - ago levels, and even though production was down slightly from the third quarter of 2016, Whiting managed to make considerable progress even with sales of assets that had contributed substantially to production in last year's results.

The immediate outlook for non-residential building work has improved slightly, with building approvals picking up from the trough reached late last year.

The latest revised data from Statistics Canada showed the ratio of household debt to income fell slightly to 161.8 percent in the first quarter from a record 162.8 percent in the third quarter of last year.

When asked whether their firms allow employees to trade on their own behalf through external accounts, 61 % of respondents said employees and spouses can trade on their own behalf as long as they report their activities to the company, compared to 51 % in last year's survey; 22 % said their firm's no - trading policy is strictly enforced and is a major deterrent to outside trading activities, slightly down from 25 % in January 2016; 14 % said their company has a no trading policy and that it is clear that violation it is a fireable offense, compared to 12 %; and another 3 % said that while their firms have no trading policies, they are loosely enforced and of little concern to employees, down from 12 %.

Of those respondents who plan to purchase a home in the future, some 72 percent said affordability is the primary obstacle, slightly down from 77 percent in last year's survey.

So even if we can plausibly imagine that a slightly better Morsi and a slightly more disciplined opposition might have existed and could have made better choices over the course of the last year, and thus allowed the fragile shoot of democratic compromise to take hold, these choices weren't made, and so the chasm between the liberals and the faithful, and the dependence of the former upon the army, are now simply the facts of Egyptian situation, the ones that one must now work from, right?

, slightly down from 77 percent in last year's survey.

This festive sauce is ever so slightly adapted from Kim Kushner's The New Kosher, gifted to me by my mother for Christmas last year.

Beverage can volumes have risen by 4 % but underlying profit was slightly down from the same period last year due to foreign exchange translation and metal premium costs.

Global wine consumption fell in 2014, but shows signs of stabilization Global wine consumption has dropped slightly in the last year, according to the latest figures from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, but overall there are signs of stabilization...