Sentences with phrase «than in past seasons»

The economic climate seems better in 2017 and already buyers have been out home shopping earlier than in past seasons.

Most episodes take place either at the Pokemon school or on Melemele Island, and there's more of an emphasis on comedy and what's it like to live in a Pokemon society than in past seasons.

The current influenza outbreak, which surged earlier and more strongly this year than in past seasons, may be an example of this in action, though health officials say it is still too soon to tell.

Not exact matches

Not even one of the worst hurricane seasons in history has thrown the stock off course: Total revenue has grown more than 13 % — and net income nearly 43 % — over the past 12 months.

According to data from price intelligence firm 360pi, over the past year through June — which includes the past holiday season — Wal - Mart has consistently offered lower prices than Target or Sears in the sports and toys category (though a severe price dip over the summer brought Sears» prices much closer to Wal - Mart's).

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

2016.02.12 Overspenders in overdrive this past holiday season, shifting into savings mode in 2016 — RBC Despite their best intentions, the number of Canadians who are spending more than they expect to each holiday season continues to grow, reaching the highest point in five years this past December...

2017.01.30 Canadian holiday season shoppers overspend again, planning cutbacks in 2017: RBC poll Canadian shoppers overspent once again this past holiday season - and did so in much higher numbers than last year...

Over the past few years, I'm most thankful for the investment of people older than me, seasoned ministers, in my life.»

I've updated the events page to include my fall 2014 speaking schedule, and as you may have noticed, it's a bit thinner than in seasons past.

I dare say we've never needed comfort food more than we have in the past four weeks, and at a time that's filled with plenty of challenging days, the silver lining is that this is the right season for such meals.

I left a couple on the plant, just in case, because the past couple of days have been a little warmer than usual... maybe we will get another red tomato or two to enjoy before the season is officially over.

How would that make him worse than Jesus Navas who has scored like once in the past 3 seasons?

During the past five seasons, Skinner's run - and - shoot teams have never been lower than fourth in the SEC, and three seasons ago Vandy finished on top for the first time.

He has more assists in his first 50 - odd Arsenal appearances than JW has in his career and more than TR has amassed in the past 6 seasons.

More than a dozen of these systems have turned up in the offices of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in the past season.

Seattle is making their annual late - season run again this year, but doing it in a little different fashion than they've done so in years past, running away from teams with a potent offensive attack instead of leaning on their normally - suffocating defense.

Golf also might be in a better spot now in 2017 when it comes to the quality of play of big - name stars than it's ever had in each of these past seasons, too.

Spare a thought for these 10 players, who have been dribbled past more than most in the Premier League this season.

In fact, we detail this bias in our 2011 - 12 Betting Against the Public article which shows that betting on teams who receive fewer than 30 % of spread wagers have won at 50.9 % over the past eight seasons — and that number jumps to 54.4 % when focusing solely at visitorIn fact, we detail this bias in our 2011 - 12 Betting Against the Public article which shows that betting on teams who receive fewer than 30 % of spread wagers have won at 50.9 % over the past eight seasons — and that number jumps to 54.4 % when focusing solely at visitorin our 2011 - 12 Betting Against the Public article which shows that betting on teams who receive fewer than 30 % of spread wagers have won at 50.9 % over the past eight seasons — and that number jumps to 54.4 % when focusing solely at visitors.

The Capitals» tortured playoff past — no Stanley Cups ever, no appearances beyond the second round in more than a decade with Alex Ovechkin despite great regular - season success — is not the story now.

This year Arsenal's squad depth is far greater than in past campaigns, but it shall still be possibly the most challenging month for Arsenal this season, at least so far.

Chelsea have spent MORE on transfers over the past few seasons than even ManCity did in their buildup.

The Watkins Glen event was the first Sprint Cup Series rainout in more than a year (April 2010 at Texas), but the second time the Glen race has been moved by rain in the past three seasons.

Imo we've been doing a lot better with refs over the past 2 or 3 years (they cost us a lot of matches in the previous 5 or so seasons, far more than our rivals) but seeing that Dean was going to ref this game was a concern still.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us having more points than any other epl team in the final two months of the season over the past few years as well.This is mostly due to injuries plaguing key members our team around this period every year, apparently we've gone through our rough mid season patch again or might still be going through seeing as we have list some key players like carzola, bellerin to injuries again.

Excitingly for Reds fans, Liverpool have signed the most creative player in the Bundesliga over the past two seasons — with no other playmaker having created more than his 138 goalscoring chances [via WhoScored].

If we can have a core of Crosby, Norwell, Jones, Fluker, Price, Cole and Flowers / Wheeler we will be in a much better place than we have been in for the past couple seasons.

Jackson is the only player in the league to average more than 17 yards a catch in each of the past two seasons, and he's the target Rivers has looked for, even more than tight end Antonio Gates, when San Diego needs a big play.

«There's no question that teams have more confidence that they can beat Jimmie than in seasons past at this point,» says driver Greg Biffle.

Indeed, Ronaldo has scored more headed goals and more free - kicks than Messi in the past three seasons and also has a better conversion rate from the penalty spot.

Lloris has been one of Tottenham's most consistent performers over the past two seasons and, though the club conceded more goals than any side in the top half of the table, it's fair to say that they would have shipped in far more if not for the French international's heroics.

But its better to put the squad in a position to challenge legitimately for the title by adding quality than just relying on Giroud's targetman ability like we have done for the past 3 seasons.

please stop these silly articles this is a joke Wenger would die rather than play 7 defenders in his team he is no mourinho are u influenced by him there is no problem with this formation our past 2 seasons best performances have come playing this formation and about your one time theory this season only we beat manu that lead us to a run of fa cup and we won that so do your homework properly.

I swear AFC is fast becoming a joke... if we are not carrying players who plays less than 10 matches in a season due to all kinds of injuries then we are forever waiting for some other players to fulfill their potentials or we are holding on to players well past prime or we are playing players based on favoritism even when we have better options on the bench....

But as this season progresses Wenger has been much more willing than in the past to make needed adjustments — and I salute him for that.

He has been scoring more than 20 goals in a season for the past 5 years at the Spanish capital city.

If he want's to try England and it is between us and Liv, I think our past record might stand up better than one season in how long.

Allen scored a goal against Watford this past weekend, his third of the season in more than 30 appearances.

It has to be something else and IMO is that I've noticed Wenger has made a LOT of decisions in the past few seasons that are nothing more than deflating and soul sucking to players who want to fight for a place... he sticks with players when they are out of form, benches players when they are playing well, makes substitutions that make no sense, plays players out of position, does not show any type of rapport with his team when things are not going well.

This has been the topic of conversation amongst many media outlets and it got us thinking: Is there more parity in college basketball this season than in past years?

I don't think they'd mind either way, chances are they'd bench Willian and play Oscar instead but it gives them options, especially as Oscar usually pulls a Fabregas mid season but to be fair to him he's played more football than anyone in the past 3 or so years, hasn't had a summer break (Olympics, World Cup, Confed Cup) and just had his first pre season since being at Chelsea for 4 years.

But on the other hand, after all his contributions for out team in the past few seasons, i'm happy for him because he stands a better chance to win something with Manure than our club, that hurts more (even Ian Wright confessed that), we cant even assure a top class player of anything anymore,,, i» scared for ozil and wilshere leaving too....

Matt Stafford has played better in each of the past two seasons than he did in the three prior, proving that he's not just a product of Calvin Johnson.

With a dearth of superstar players, our hypothesis was that home underdogs have performed better than they have in past seasons.

Gonzaga has received less than 30 % of spread tickets just five times over the past twelve seasons, going 4 - 1 ATS in those games.

Sometimes we mistreat Walcott this past season he has done more than any winger in epl.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us gaining more points than any other EPL team in the final two months of the season, over the past few years at least.

Arsenal have already had five penalties given against us this season, which is more than we've given away in the past two seasons combined.

Valencia have suffered financial problems over the past few seasons that has led to the sales of stars David Silva, Raul Albiol and David Villa and there may well be a need to sell once again to balance the books and Soldado may well be interested in a high profile move that could help assist in his pursuit of a return to the Spanish national team after more than three years out of Vicente Del Bosque's squad.