Sentences with phrase «smaller than previous years»

It's annoying that it's a bit smaller than previous years - 1.2 - inch vs 1.3 - inch - as we want as much to look at as possible on a smartwatch, but if that's the price of a more compact device, we can understand.

While the budget continued to show a surplus, it was a surplus smaller than the previous year, which in macro-policy terms is expansionary.

Not exact matches

While the difference in funding is massive, it's slightly smaller than in previous years.

Last year for Small Business Saturday 2014, more than 126,000 tweets were sent in support of the initiative, a 10 - percent increase from the previous year.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

Small businesses were a much sought - after commodity during 2017, with the number of sales transactions rising more than 26 percent from the previous year.

That's a smaller surplus than the previous quarter, but still one of the wider gaps in recent years.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

Small businesses: More than $ 250,000 but no more than $ 500,000 in average annual produce sales during the previous three - year period — January 26, 2019

Very small businesses: More than $ 25,000 but no more than $ 250,000 in average annual produce sales during the previous three - year period — January 26, 2020

Notably, this response was larger than the effect observed for smaller managed spring flow events in previous years.

Harvest is coming to an end in the Northern Hemisphere, and like the Southern Hemisphere earlier in the year, it looks to be smaller than the volume produced in the previous year.

Analysis of the most recent British Election Study data demonstrated that while support for UKIP will fall after May's European Parliament elections, this decline will be by a much smaller margin than in previous years.

The 2014 electoral threshold is higher than it has been in previous years, so PAN will likely join forces with smaller parties that have been deemed ineligible to compete for the election, including the Prosperous Peace Party, a moderate Christian party.

Long a talented fund - raiser, Ms. Gillibrand has cultivated a flourishing network of small donors, raising nearly $ 3 million in the first three quarters of 2017 from people who gave less than $ 200, more than she had in the previous eight years combined from such donors.

Though it continues to grow smaller, it appears to be doing so at a slower rate than in previous years.

This quasar is only slightly smaller than the previous distance record - holder, which weighs as much as 2 billion suns and whose light is 12.9 billion years old, emitted when the universe was just 770 million years old (SN: 7/30/11, p. 12).

The zone, which at about 5,000 square miles (13,000 sq km) is the second largest in the world but still smaller than in previous years, is so named because it contains no oxygen, or too little, at the Gulf floor to support bottom - dwelling fish and shrimp.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

This year's maximum extent, reached on March 7 at 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers), is 37,000 square miles (97,00 square kilometers) below the previous record low, which occurred in 2015, and 471,000 square miles (1.22 million square kilometers) smaller than the average maximum extent for 1981 - 2010.

Antarctica's sea - ice cover was also greatly reduced, measuring about 154,000 square miles (398,858 kilometers) smaller than it was in 1986, the previous record - holding year.

The rocket, which Musk calls the BFR — the first and last letters stand for «big» and «rocket» — is smaller than the one he announced at the same event last year, carrying 150 tonnes compared to the previous design's 300.

Now, DNA from an ancient femur bone has revealed that humans and Neandertals were mating and mixing about 52,000 to 58,000 years ago — a much smaller window than the previous best estimate.

Ravitch found that during Klein's five - year tenure academic gains have been smaller than during the previous five years and that the reading scores of cohorts of students are actually declining as they progress through the system.

An important caveat to the fourth - year point estimates is that the sample is considerably smaller than for previous years» estimates.

The statement touched on the district's current financial straits, saying, ``... we anticipate the recruiting class may be smaller than in previous years.»

Yet the small minority of requests put in by candidates who were not present for an exam — sometimes due to illness, according to the report — were less likely to be approved than in previous years because a candidate's performance can no longer be predicted due to the lack of prior modules.

The scope of this year's competition is notably smaller than i3's first round, which awarded $ 650 million to 49 districts and nonprofits, but the department is still able to fund about half the number of awards as the previous year because so many applicants are receiving the smaller $ 3 million development grants slated for promising but unstudied activities.

As a consequence, the national sample size increased, and smaller differences between years or between groups of students were found to be statistically significant than would have been detected in previous assessments.

More importantly, however, is the fact that the 2016 Honda Pilot should be safer than the outgoing model, earning «good» ratings for moderate overlap frontal offset, small overlap frontal offset, side impact, and roof strength, which was an improvement over the previous gen model, which received a «poor» rating for small overlap frontal offset and a «marginal» rating for roof strength for the 2009 to 2011 model years.

The 2012 Mercedes - Benz CLS550 is powered by a smaller - but - more - powerful engine than last year's CLS: a 4.7 - liter twin - turbo V8 in place of the previous 5.5 - liter V8.

Currently the bill is written to provide an exemption to any business owners who made less than $ 500,000 in out - of - state sales for the previous year in an attempt to not penalize the smaller online retailers and business owners.

The case is a smaller than the more traditional tower we've seen on previous iterations, like last years» Velocity Micro Edge Z55 (Summer 2013).

Some categories like weather for instance, now have a smaller weighting in our ranking than in previous years, while other categories have been expanded.

Following the Fund's rebalance in 2017, the portfolio held fewer mid - and large - cap stocks and a higher number of small - cap companies than it had in the previous three years.

He expects people retiring 30 to 40 years from now to have incomes that are smaller relative to their working - age salaries than did previous generations.

Interested applicants would mostly likely be more recent graduates with less than five years previous working experience, a genuine interest in soft tissue surgery and participation in small animal reproductive medicine through continuing education and a mentoring process.

After spending more than two years immersed in the willfully destructive subculture of the American demolition derby, which she documented in her previous work «Thrill Show» and «Anyone Can Enter,» photographer Susan Mikula was eager to «tell a smaller tale, one infused with the magic of just a few objects.»

Although the rise from an average of 375.64 ppm in 2003 is smaller than in the previous two years, experts say it again fits the pattern of increases in emissions driving the warming of the Earthâ??

The GRACE observations over Antarctica suggest a near - zero change due to combined ice and solid earth mass redistribution; the magnitude of our GIA correction is substantially smaller than previous models have suggested and hence we produce a systematically lower estimate of ice mass change from GRACE data: we estimate that Antarctica has lost 69 ± 18 Gigatonnes per year (Gt / yr) into the oceans over 2002 - 2010 — equivalent to +0.19 mm / yr globally - averaged sea level change, or about 6 % of the sea - level change during that period.

It has a period of 25 years and between 1750 and 1900 there were six easily observed wave peaks, each successively smaller than the previous one.

The same periodicities in rTEC are smaller than those seen in the previous years.

On the other hand, Airbus's giant A380, which enters service this year, takes many more people between hubs than previous aircraft, using less fuel per passenger than smaller planes.

Although still small in relation to hydropower, cancellations of GoOs from wind power have more than doubled compared to the previous year and cancellations from solar power have even increased to 4.5 times the number of the year before, after tripling between 2015 and 2016.

I do think, however, that it is significant (short term, not a firm trend) that CO2, as measured at MLO, has been increasing at a smaller rate than in previous years despite the fact that overall anthropogenic CO2 output is not decreasing and, furthermore, that the short term trend of the absolute increase is also down which indicates a greater rate of absorption of CO2 than in previous years — which to me would indicate an ongoing cooling of the oceans as per the theory that a cooling ocean absorbs more CO2 while a warming ocean releases more CO2.

For RSS, the 1979 - 2004 trend is larger than any previous trend of more than 10 years, i.e., any trend between 1979 - 89 and 1979 - 2004 will be smaller than 1979 - 2004.

In conclusion to this small tour d'horizon of EU law in 2014, I would like to thank all our readers and contributors on behalf of the editors team for their interest and all their efforts, which seem to make every year of blogging even more exciting and more rewarding than the previous one also for us editors.

Indeed, while district courts invalidated more than double the number of patents under § 101 in the second half of 2014 than in the entire previous year, those decisions represent a very small number of cases relative to the volume of litigation in the system.

Copycats accounted for more than 250,000 of the 700,000 rejected apps during 2017, while PHAs (Potentially Harmful Applications) are described as «small in volume», commanding 50 percent fewer installs than the previous year thanks to Google Play Protect.