Sentences with phrase «than any previous year when»

If you think about it, we only need to finish 2nd after the round robins — which is far more achievable than previous years when were needed to be first after the round robin stage.

2012 marked the second year of Governor Andrew Cuomo's term in office and was much less dramatic than the previous year when he was able to get the legislature to pass a property tax cap, ethics reform and same sex marriage.

I should mention, however, that more than any previous year when I've made these predictions, I could well be 100 % wrong about every last one of these choices.

Not exact matches

The latest report departs from previous estimates pegging the company's value during an IPO at $ 25 to $ 35 billion, higher than the $ 20 billion valuation Snap received when it raised funding earlier this year.

The Shanghai Composite finally comes alive and the «A» shares are up more than 20 % in 2013, in contrast with the previous year when Chinese stocks were down and some developing markets, notably India, rose.

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.

Finally the real New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a percentage of US GDP rose to new highs — going over the previous high set on March 2000, more than 15 years ago when the dot - com bubble was at peak!

When we report on changes in home sales we typically compare current sales to the previous year rather than the previous month to avoid comparing changes that have more to do with seasonal swings in the demand for houses.

More wealth was created between 1982 and 2007 than in the previous 200 years, when adjusted for inflation.

Investor purchasing intentions have changed significantly since ORC surveyed investors in August, when only 30 percent said they planned to buy fewer properties in the next 12 months than they did in the previous year.

After repeated episodes stretching back to 2013 when the Fed had failed to deliver predicted rate rises, market participants were now faced with a specific warning from Fed Chair Yellen that policy accommodation would be removed more quickly than in previous years.

At around two - thirds, the share of Australian entities» issuance that went into offshore markets was noticeably lower than in the first half of 2003, when offshore issuance was particularly strong, but broadly consistent with its average of the previous two years.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

Perhaps that confuses more than clarifies my position but I'll be the first to admit that I have not yet found the clarity that I seek and yet I would rather be where I am now than in the blind certainty of previous years when I thought I had it all figured out but was in fact wearing blinders that made it easier to look straight ahead but caused me to miss out on so much of the beauty of God all around me.

Getting guns off the street made Hollywood MUCH safer than it was these past few years than my previous time there in the 1980s, when guns and drug dealing were widespread.

And there is ALWAYS some other recipe from a previous year that sucks me in (and gets me browsing for far longer than I should when I'm at the office).

The former Lille man had a standout season last term, even more effective than in his previous campaign when he helped Rudi Garcia's side to their first domestic title in over 50 years.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

Much faster than the previous generation of F1 cars, for example Valtteri Bottas smashed Mercedes team - mate Lewis Hamilton's 1:22.000 pole time from last year's Spanish Grand Prix when he did a 1:19.705 on the ultra-soft tyres on Wednesday.

Even when Wall has been healthy, Beal has had the ball in his hand more than he has had in previous years, so naturally as a result, that means Wall will have to play at times with Beal handling the ball.

The changes made by UEFA over the seedings for the Champions League is simply going to mean that the Group Stages have every chance of being many times harder than in previous years, when every top team was guaranteed at least one lemon in the Group.

Probably the most significant change happened in May, when state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a consent decree with University Heights landlord Jeremy Dunn, whose 51 properties on Winspear and Northrup had been the scenes of more than 500 calls to 911 in the previous three years.

The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.

We hear much about taxing the rich, yet, in this Parliament, the richest will pay more in tax than in any single year of the previous Government — more tax on capital gains, more stamp duty — they will be less able to avoid and evade tax and they will pay more when they take out their pension policies.»

This cycle's first round comes earlier than the previous cycle when the first 16 candidates were named in early February of the on - year.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

When asked by ITV News Political Correspondent Paul Brand how this year's Labour Party conference compared to previous ones, Mr Mann said: «Actually it's quieter than a lot... in terms of the level of debate.

ALBANY — The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.

Anning was no more than 13 years old when she found her first notable fossil, in 1812: the fossilized body matching the Ichthyosaurus skull her older brother had uncovered the previous year.

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).

Unfortunately, when a Senate spending panel took up the bill earlier this week, it embraced the president's proposal — a 1.1 % increase — instead of the level the House approved, which would give NSF 3.2 % more money to spend than it had the previous year.

But however they stole, the thieving birds fledged 50 % more chicks over 10 years than birds that made an honest living fishing, the researchers discovered when they pored over their own data and previous observations.

When the expert predictions were compared with the real 2014 results, they were found to be no better than a naïve forecasting model that assumes each team will replicate their previous year's performance.

When you compare the results to the previous year's poll, in 2010 singles preferred PlentyOfFish.com 4 percent more than in 2009.

People tend to marry later in life than previous generations, so when they decide to settle down, they may no longer have access to the social communities of their younger years, such as college, universities, night - clubs, raves and evenings on the town with school friends.

In truth, it's a lot easier not to mind a modest collection of extras today than it was 10 - 12 years ago when the previous movies first came to DVD in loaded 2 - disc sets.

The previous benchmark for a large class was set last year, when 322 invitees were announced — less than half the number announced on Wednesday.

I look forward to the day when we get to see Bond just go on an assignment that only exists for one film rather than make every movie a sequel to the previous installment to appease grumpy critics and audiences who never liked the first 50 years of the franchise in the first place.

When we look at these opinions in more detail it is the primary schools that are more optimistic about future funding than secondary schools, but both record less optimism than in previous years.

New schools continue to open each year, but the rate slowed considerably from its peak in 2012 — 13, when more than 18 percent additional students enrolled compared to the previous year.

When asked how many absences they had during the previous school year, less than half (43 percent) recalled absences consistent with chronic absenteeism.

The scores for fourth - graders and eighth - graders were higher than in previous years, but psychometricians have yet to untangle the degree of improvement attributable to No Child Left Behind (no NAEP math test was given in 2002, when No Child Left Behind began).

This year's principal vacancies, however, pale in comparison to previous years — particularly under city schools CEO Andres Alonso, when the district had a turnover rate of more than 90 percent, and more than 40 principals were being appointed in one summer, 15 in the week before school started.

To make matters even worse, Superintendent Luizzi is undoubtedly well aware of that fact that less than one year ago, when the Chairman of the State Board of Education and Malloy's previous Commissioner of Education came before a special legislative hearing on the Common Core, both of these public officials admitted that there was no law or mechanism to prevent a parent from opting their children out of Common Core SBAC testing.

And finally, less than one year ago, when the Chairman of the State Board of Education and Malloy's previous Commissioner of Education went before a special legislative hearing on the Common Core, both of these public officials admitted — on the record — that there was no law or mechanism to prevent a parent from opting their children out of Common Core SBAC testing.

Previous convertible SUVs, like the Nissan Murano CC, caused a bit of a stir when launched, yet gradually faded out of view and its production ceased in 2014 (after being on the market for less than 3 years).

But when converting the revenues in Euros from Pounds, the total amount was half a billion lower than it would have been, had the GBP maintained its value from the previous year.

But when value, rather than volume, is considered, a different picture emerges: on the estimate that ebooks sold for an average # 4.35, the Bookseller calculates that digital books earned around # 381.5 m last year, giving a combined print and ebook total of # 1.9 bn, up 7.1 % on the previous year.

Assuming a typical guarantee of 5 % per year, when a client turned 71 under the previous regime, the GMWB would pay 7.38 % — 2.38 % more than the guarantee.