Sentences with phrase «than in past years»

It received more than 40 applications for new schools, which was slightly higher than in past years.

Although the set of indicators used is somewhat different than in past years, there is enough overlap to allow for some comparison.

One advocate said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

And this year, consumers are set to spend more than in past years on their loved ones.

However, market share remains lower than in past years.

But other dealers and advisors worried that sales were slower than in past years, and not just because of the weather.

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 went about prepping for my fall home tour this year a little differently than in past years.

They're also recruiting more aggressively than in past years.

There are more and more options available to parents and students than in past years.

The tests that students in grades 3 through 8 took last spring were harder than in past years.

And that means paying a lot more attention to your mirrors than in past years.

The increases were fueled by a year of strong new releases, particularly in the romance genre, and even more widespread popularity of e-books than in past years.

One of the things that happened this past semester, much more so than in past years, were little side discussions about finances.

I guess this could include simply pet owners being willing to spend more on their pets than in past years.

41 % of firms plan to spend more this year on technology than in past years.

The question of regulating conflicts of interest was less at the forefront of Canadian legal ethics than in past years, and less than it is likely to be in 2013.

People and the world in general is much more transparent and open than in past years, but can we say social media is the primary catalyst of this?

With more jobs and disposable income, home buyers have been able to spend more on their dream home than in past years.

Overall, product introductions at this year's CES were generally more subdued than in past years, likely reflecting the pervasive uncertainty of a sour economy.

In all fairness, I did see less of this faux pas but they seem even more prevalent now than in past years.

School officials said they expected enrollment to grow with students who move into the city, but the number will still likely be far smaller than in past years.

Young teachers — those with less than five years of experience — are leaving the Appleton School District at noticeably higher rate than in past years, according to an analysis by the Appleton Post-Crescent.

Peng Her, parent of three Madison students, assistant director of the Center for Resilient Cities and a member of the Hmong Education Council, said the school improvement process under Cheatham feels different than those in past years because there's a bigger focus on engaging the community.

HISTORY / STORYLINES: Capital Christian has won the last two D - V section titles and is probably stronger this year than in those past years.

SCOPE, VOLTA and Spring / Break have new locations... all are now closer to The Armory Show than in past years.

This season outerwear seems to be a lot more prevalent than in past years.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

wenger's doing more rotation than in past years, but still, shouldve started roz / campbell / podolski.

«Given the losses we had over the winter and a cut in payroll, the challenge to build a championship - caliber team was more daunting than in past years,» says general manager John Schuerholz, who was ordered in the off - season by owner Time Warner (also SI's parent company) to slash last season's $ 95 million payroll by $ 15 million.

The public perception of United is that they are now a pragmatic side who is more cautious in their approach than in past years.

Families not qualifying for free / reduced may be much more strapped for funds in the current economy than in past years.

With Oddo's prodding, de Blasio committed more city money to repaving Staten Island's roads than in past years.

Towns have smaller workforces than in past years, dating to the recession.

Speaking of transportation, he's helped get Connecticut more in federal money for its roads and rail than in past years.

The New York Police Department plans to deploy 600 to 800 more officers than in past years, including some specially trained counterterrorism officers equipped with long guns, along with additional cameras and bomb - sniffing police dogs, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

«I think we have more F4s and F5s than in past years — but for us to say this is climate change, I don't know that we have the evidence that we can say that definitively.»

But last year, Arrigo and his team noted a proliferation of pools of water, known as melt ponds, on the surface of the Chukchi Sea ice, which were also a few meters thinner than in past years.

Barré - Sinoussi, who shared the Nobel Prize for her role in the discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS, stressed that in addition to increased numbers of delegates from Asia and the Pacific, Africa will have more attendees than in past years.

A revamped SAT yielded improved scores for college - bound students in 1995, although officials denied that this year's examination was easier than in past years.

From the outset it was clear the NSVF event would be different this year in that there would be more people of color, more talk about race, and more focus on equity than in past years.

«This year, although LAUSD made more offers of facilities to charter schools than in past years, those offers failed to spell out how charter schools would access specialized classroom space and non-classroom space on the offered campuses.

(Wis.) Despite a push for more non-fiction reading in many states» academic standards prompted by Common Core, new research shows students read only slightly more rigorous material than in past years.

The scores look a lot more like NAEP than in past years.