Sentences with phrase «so than last year»

Don't just take Google's word for it — the Pixel 2's camera really does stand out, more so than last year's model it appears.

Split into two different options, the Gear S3 has been designed — with the help of Swiss minds — to look and feel more like a traditional watch, even more so than last year's Gear S2.

«Its new A10 Fusion processor is ludicrously, outrageously fast, somehow even more so than last year's (already crazy fast) A9.»

The conference gave us some great panels once again, and a surprisingly large amount of virtual reality - even more so than last year.

Probably best of all about the screen is that it's perfectly responsive, more so than last year's flush of Android phones and that 1.2 GHz dual core processor and 1 GB of RAM working away in the background might have something to do with it.

Plus, the reviews were still overwhelmingly negative, if slightly less so than last year's Sandler trifecta of Just Go With It, Zookeeper, and Jack and Jill.

At least more so than last year's late surge.

In the US, recent research found that 70 per cent of people are now swapping meat for a non-meat protein at least once a week, with 22 per cent saying they were more likely to do so than last year.

Not exact matches

Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.

Probably, in the last year, this has emerged more so than ever because of the political climate.

Ask yourself: Has the value your adviser provided more this year than last, or has your situation changed so much that it calls for an increase in your fee?

As of last year, Google's Cloud Vision AI was as good as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter).

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

Henry Blodget: So you've made a comment recently that this industry has changed more in the last three years than in the prior 30 — which is extraordinary.

Financial technology («fintech») startups have received more than $ 11 billion in venture capital funding so far this year, 83 % more than all of last year, according to CB Insights.

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

In general, Canadian companies received lower scores this year than last, so marketers should take note.

So far, 2016 has seen mainland firms launch a record $ 181 billion of overseas mergers and acquisitions — about 70 % more than the whole of last year.

«Employees who ask their boss directly for a bonus are twice as likely to be successful in that request than last year, so making proactive, bold moves in 2017 could pay off, but one always needs to approach these conversations with care,» said Accounting Principals president, David Alexander.

In total, employers have announced 493,431 planned layoffs so far this year, a 36 % jump over the same period last year and 2 % more than the 2014 total.

After all, as Richard Florida reported last year, the Census Bureau finds that 86 percent of U.S. workers still commute by car and more than 75 percent do so alone.

It's way weirder than that, detailing Lindell's rise from a 47 - year - old crack addict with a problem so bad even his dealer cut him off to the owner of a sprawling pillow empire that pulled in $ 280 million last year.

Salaries have soared by more than 50 % in the last five years, but the number of available posts has remained stagnant at around 4,200, so chances are the only airplanes you'll get to order around are the paper variety.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

But watching what he's done over the last year or so is more than just a Beltway parlor game.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

«We expect it (revenue from big six) to be more or less like that this year, so it will be less than last year but now the declines are much smaller,» Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton told Reuters on a post earnings call.

More than 63,600 Americans were killed by opioid painkillers last year — 11,200 more people than the year before that and the highest number of lives claimed by the crisis so far.

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.

Consider, for example, that one in three U.S. colleges now offers some sort of accredited degree online, more than double the number that did so last year.

So far this year, fewer startups have hit the prized billion - dollar valuation than did any in a single quarter last year.

More than 25 CEOs have stepped into the top spot at a Fortune 500 company so far this year, plenty of them within the last few months.

So is this company, thanks to the completion of a two - year highway - expansion project: first - quarter sales for 1997 were up by more than 40 %, compared with the same period last year.

So even though MDY paid the couple salaries totaling more than $ 170,000 last year, Moerdler and Datskovsky were obligated to pay income tax on considerably more than that, ending up with a combined take - home income of about $ 120,000.

Author Alexandra Levit, for instance, recently blogged about receiving an email from «a 45 - year - old who was thrilled that after more than 20 years in corporate America, he was at last working in a so - called «open environment.»

You'll win them over quickly, more so than many big businesses that are trying to win over last year.

«Stocks certainly look more attractive than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other asset classes is less clear... «So while returns may compress from the outsized gains we have seen over the last several years, we remain constructive on equities.

One Googler said that the company is a great place to see, listen to, and meet with people who he grew up reading about («Never in my life have I met so many people with a Wikipedia page than in the last year!»

So Bank staff have updated the analysis that they did last year by looking at more than 4,000 export categories.

Returning to the same south Texas courthouse where a Texas - led coalition won a sweeping victory against a key immigration policy of the Obama Administration more than three years ago, Texas and some of its former allies moved on Tuesday to scuttle the last remaining part of that policy — the so - called «DACA» program.

The soap will last a very long time at least 3 months or longer with daily use and this is if it was my only soap which it is not so I expect a good 1 year plus use of this tub so for the price it costs less than a dollar a month for one of the worlds classiest and most respected soaps and brands in the shaving world.

The annual expenditures for Mainers are estimated to be $ 65,048, so $ 1 million in savings will last less than 16 years there.

So even with added savings, $ 1 million will last less than 15 years in New Jersey.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

(Note: Last year's numbers are based on prices at the time of the analysis, not initially approved prices, so they may be slightly higher than initial figures.)

As I shared with you in January, emerging Europe countries, as measured by the MSCI EM Europe 10/40 Index, finished last year up more than 20 percent, and so far in 2018, they've returned 1.17 percent, compared to the S&P 500 Index, which is down more than 3 percent.

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.

Shell's emissions last year were 5Mt, so with their credits from Quest and their use of cogeneration, more than half of this could be offset, far exceeding the reductions which will be required under Alberta law.

«It grows earnings not so much by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years) using high - powered, high P / E multiple GE stock or cheap near Treasury Bill yielding commercial paper.

I've used it several times a week for a month and as far as I can make out, only an infinitesimal amount of the soap has been consumed so at this rate the soap will probably last me more than a year.