Sentences with phrase «than the previous year period»

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However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

Antares, which was known as Amity Oil until November last year, announced a half year profit to December 31 of $ 8.2 million, which was 15 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period.

-LRB-...) Eurostat said wages were 2.0 % higher in the three months through June than a year earlier, the fastest rise since the first quarter of 2015 and up from 1.3 % in the previous three - month period.

For existing homes, sales dipped 3.4 percent in October but were still about four percent higher than the previous year, while sales prices rose for the 44th straight month and were up 5.8 percent from the same time period.

The fund - raising has also taken place against a more compressed time period, with Zenefits boosting its war chest in less than a year from a previous financing round.

Half - year profits of the 158 companies in the ASX 200 index that reported for the half year to December 2004 amounted to $ 29 billion, 91 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year (Graph D1).

Small businesses: More than $ 250,000 but no more than $ 500,000 in average annual produce sales during the previous three - year period — January 26, 2019

Very small businesses: More than $ 25,000 but no more than $ 250,000 in average annual produce sales during the previous three - year period — January 26, 2020

The memo, which was circulated to prison governors on November 26th, reads: «The criminal casework directorate (CCD) of the Border and Immigration Agency have confirmed to us that as a rule they have no interest in pursuing foreign national prisoners serving sentences of less than 12 months for deportation unless they have a court recommendation for deportation, are already subject to deportation proceedings, or (in the case of non-EEA nationals) were sentenced to less than 12 months but where the current sentence plus one or two previous sentences within the last five years (taking account of the most significant sentences during the period) total 12 months or more.»

The National Republican Congressional Committee told Secrets Monday that the 2017 record was $ 12.4 million more than the previous best «off - year» period, in 2003.

The total haul was roughly 67 percent larger than the $ 394,495 in private donations de Blasio was able to raise in February and March this year, during the previous two - month filing period.

This is the longest period of such failure since records began, and more than twice the previous record of the five years it took the then Labour opposition to gain the Lewisham North by - election, 1957.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

Previous estimates suggested that peak temperatures during the warmest interglacial periods — which occurred at around 125,000, 240,000 and 340,000 years ago — were about three degrees higher than they are today.

Assuming this is the orbital period of hot gas revolving near the black hole, the astronomers deduce that the monster weighs 450,000 to 5 million times more than the sun, agreeing with previous estimates and making the black hole comparable to the 4 - million - solar - mass one at the Milky Way's center — but located in a galaxy 3.9 billion light - years away.

Previous evidence of preserved collagen date back to the Late Cretaceous Period — more than 100 million years younger than this discovery — but those studies extracted the organic remains by dissolving away all other parts of the fossil, without a clear understanding of the precise origins of the collagen.

Peter Stott, the head of climate monitoring at the U.K. Met Office, agreed, noting in an email that, «The slowdown hasn't gone away, however, the results of this study still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods.

The study found that throughout the same period, more forests and wetlands were being converted to cropland than in previous years.

In a study out of the University of Arizona, researchers found that melting ice sheets had a greater impact on sea level rise than the thermal expansion of the oceans during the previous interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

A previous warm period about 130,00 years ago, is the Eemian — sea level 5 - 9 meters higher than today, and enormous storms, not seen in the Holocene.

Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now.

In the previous five - year period, fewer than 33,500 of these HPV - linked cancers were diagnosed annually.

Keezhadi excavation leads to ancient civilisation on the banks of Vaigai Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era 2,100 - year - old Jewish community found in Judea, dating back to Hasmonean period, 600 years earlier than previous finds at the site.

After a bad start last year, domestic box office over the 12 months prior to CinemaCon 2012 grew more than 6 % over the same period in the previous year.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

JAN MAGNUSSEN, NO. 3 MOBIL 1 / SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R — FINISHED THIRD IN GTLM: «This year's race was a lot difference than previous years because of the lack of safety car periods.

C - Class model range — sedan and estate — sales has reached to a new record of 109,050 units, which represent 57.8 % more than in the same period of the previous year.

Store revenue over the recent holiday period was down 11 % on the previous year, however the company still made $ 317 million in earnings last year, more than enough, according to Klipper, to offset losses from the Nook ereader section of the company, which spends heavily on advertising and new technology.

I don't agree think you can call previous management «professional» when they ended up paying out far more in dividends than the company was earning over a three year period.

As for the specifics on Friday's economic reports, total industrial production in the U.K. during the July period increased by 0.4 % year - on - year as expected but faster than the previous month's 0.3 % rise.

During the promotional period, there were 28 percent more cat adoptions than the same period the previous year.

According to Nielsen, for the 52 weeks ending Aug. 30, 2014, dollar sales of total pet food in all outlets totaled more than $ 14 billion, which was flat compared to the same period the previous year.

Talk about pigs: Americans ate 1.1 billion bacon servings during the 12 - month period ending April 2014, about 6 percent more than the previous year,... Read More

Talk about pigs: Americans ate 1.1 billion bacon servings during the 12 - month period ending April 2014, about 6 percent more than the previous year, according to market research firm the NPD Group.

Also in the month after each attack, Squaremouth.com's trip cancellation sales were 19 percent higher than in the same period the previous year.

Vienna registered 6.3 million visitor overnights between January and June 2015 — 5.4 per cent more than for the same period the previous year and an all - time record.

To the end of June, the Federal Statistical Office registered 36.7 million international overnight stays (in accommodation companies with at least ten beds), 1.2 million more than in the same period of the previous year — an increase of three per cent.

Satellite observations of the Greenland ice sheet, which are made daily, have shown that the period when snow melted during 2006 was 10 days longer than the average for the previous 18 years.

The ice is a frozen archive of the climate of the past, which has been dated back all the way to the previous interglacial Eem - period more than 120.000 years ago.

Solanki et al. say: «According to our reconstruction, the level of solar activity during the past 70 years is exceptional, and the previous period of equally high activity occurred more than 8,000 years ago.»

«According to our reconstruction, the level of solar activity during the last 70 years is exceptional, and the previous period of equally high activity occurred more than 8000 years ago.

But even more daunting than this large amount of committed emissions, we found that total committed emissions grew by an average of 4 % between 2000 and 2012 as we built more coal - fired power plants over that period than in any previous 12 - year period.

In 2005, Emanuel reported that hurricane intensity, which is fed by warmth, had increased some 80 percent during the previous 50 years, a period during which temperatures had increased more dramatically than any time in at least 500 years.

These assumed that the largest decreases in rainfall would be in winter and spring (decreases of 5 % and 11 % between 1990 and 2030 on the low and high global warming scenarios respectively), but rainfall was fractionally HIGHER in winter / spring in the more recent period (1995 - 2006) than in the previous 11 - year period.

My understanding of the viewpoint of the majority of experts in related fields is that analysis shows that relative to 50 years ago, and the LIA, and the MWP, average global temperatures are warmer, and increasing in warmth at an anomalous rate than indicated by the data on previous time periods, including the MWP.

The GRACE observations over Antarctica suggest a near - zero change due to combined ice and solid earth mass redistribution; the magnitude of our GIA correction is substantially smaller than previous models have suggested and hence we produce a systematically lower estimate of ice mass change from GRACE data: we estimate that Antarctica has lost 69 ± 18 Gigatonnes per year (Gt / yr) into the oceans over 2002 - 2010 — equivalent to +0.19 mm / yr globally - averaged sea level change, or about 6 % of the sea - level change during that period.

Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now.

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During the period since 1998, global temperatures have risen at a slower pace than they did in the previous 30 years.

It has a period of 25 years and between 1750 and 1900 there were six easily observed wave peaks, each successively smaller than the previous one.