Sentences with phrase «than some of one's peers»

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Fees: Mutual funds are rewarded for having expense ratios lower than those of their peers and for effectively reducing their expense ratios with asset growth.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

In that light, the propensity for a job acquisition would be significantly higher than any of his peers with just a degree.

, seek out learning in branding, marketing and business development if it isn't offered and you will progress faster than any of your peers.

My expertise in cost accounting takes me a step further than those of my peers.

Less able or less motivated incumbent teachers might find themselves earning smaller salary increases than some of their peers.

It can be unpleasant for entrepreneurs with a more solid financial base to discover that they are required to take on more risk than some of their peers.

I worried when I noticed my daughter was taking a bit longer to potty train than some of her peers and I felt like it was never going to happen.

Their body temperatures were also hotter than those of their peers, suggesting that the brain has a lot of power in determining how far the body is able to push itself.

These qualities make the investment safer than some of the peers in the industry / sector, and the investors have continued to pay a higher premium for the company.

Although her work is technically accomplished, he writes, her work feels derivative and less original than that of her peers.

The latter is a much larger speaker than any of its peers, and there's good reason for that.

It's far more recognized than any of its peers, and that makes it easier to buy, store, and sell.

Over the past decade, he's pulled that off better than any of his peers.

The valuation on a book basis is significantly higher than that of peers.

A central figure of the British art scene for almost half a century, David Hockney is remarkably wealthy (with a net worth of some $ 40 million), yet still less so than some of his peers.

rather cheerful - love to laugh; a person of varied interests; a little girl at heart for the most part but at the same time more mature in many ways than those of my peers; don't look my age - people tell me all the time I look MUCH younger than my age (and I am not one to fuzz about my looks);...

If the child's work habits or ability to sustain attention or fine motor skills are less advanced than those of his peers because he is younger, parents fear that the child will be left behind.

Though her comments on literature were generally more factual or summary than analytical, Sandra showed far more willingness to participate in class discussions and group work than some of her peers with more «innate» ability.

Gorman's stance on bitcoin appeared slightly less negative than some of his peers on Wall Street.

Cigna, which trades at about 15 times earnings, is also cheaper than some of its peers and it's less expensive than the S&P 500.

And it's not that Lenovo is simply more imaginative than any of its peers.

However, the company's business model hasn't been centered on monetization, and Twitter has far fewer users to monetize than either of its peers.

The public believed it, rating the brand far more trustworthy than any of its peers of a similar size.

XLE pulls its stocks from the S&P 500 rather than the total market, so its portfolio is somewhat smaller than that of peer funds, and it favors large - caps.

Wielding an electric guitar and one of rock and roll's most recognizable voices, Howard's energy was more reminiscent of arena - rockers from your parents» generations than any of her peers.

More of those hours will be watchable than any of those peers.

He carries himself with uncommon dignity and class, he handles his superstardom more graciously than any of his peers.

Operating within one of Serie A's best passing units, he is required to carry out evasive action less often than some of his peers.

With a QWERTY keyboard, headphone jack and contrast controls on the screen, it is slightly more sophisticated than some of its peers.

Research has identified an «achievement gap» in the test scores of children from families of low socioeconomic status, finding their scores are lower than those of their peers from wealthier families, said Anne Fernald, a psychologist at Stanford University.

That added maturity has «helped me to be able to have the focus and drive to take it more seriously than some of my peers.»

We know this because patients who were given the new - look medication presented higher hypertension and systolic blood pressure than either of their peers whose medication was unchanged or simply wrapped in a different packaging.

As a researcher focused on an earlier period, she was more comfortable than some of her peers in accepting that domestication prior to the advent of agriculture — roughly 12,000 years ago — was even possible.

But, as David Sandberg, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, has long argued, short kids do fine in the long run — finer than some of their peers, in fact, because of the adversity they've experienced and the resilience they've developed.

Since first science in 1993 for Keck I and 1996 for Keck II, the two telescopes are the most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth, publishing more papers per telescope than any of its peers.

As wonderful as it is to see a filmmaker with more uncommon inspirations than some of his peers, it's equally disheartening when he falls short of them.

Its leaders and supporters have managed not only to run better schools than some of their peers, but they're also much more open about results, even when those results aren't as strong as everyone wants.

Between 1992 and 2000, the scores of Texas students in all three groups increased faster than those of their peers nationwide, with the size of the gap between student in Texas and the nation widening to well over 10 points for each group.

Birch says she has more strengths than some of her peers, yet the focus has always been on her deficits.

Since she did not study education in college, Scherer had a steeper learning curve than some of her peers.

On the contrary, the iWatch looks even more futuristic than any of its peers.

Their portfolio is conservative by an investor's standards, with a strong weighting towards bonds rather than equities, but it's a bit more aggressive than some of their peers with pure bond portfolios.

The result is a launch title that stays fresh much longer than any of its peers.

Rail: I remember reading an essay that Fairfield Porter wrote on your paintings [included in «Porter's Selected Criticism 1935 - 1945» edited by Rackstraw Downes], which said that you had a better understanding of color and color - plus - tone than any of your peers, and that you had just as good a sensitive feeling for nature as the most ambitious Californian non-objectivists.

This mercurial creator — cleverer, wittier, more wildly experimental, more waywardly subversive, more wilfully capricious than any of his peers — had a mind like a one - man laboratory.