Sentences with phrase «with earlier periods»

That data are then aggregated into a metro - level index and compared with earlier periods.

My history isn't good enough to compare this with earlier periods: is «quite rare» the right phrase here?

The study, by two astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says the 20th century wasn't unusually warm compared with earlier periods and contradicts evidence indicating man - made «greenhouse» gases are causing temperatures to rise.

Does it reflect a changed position relative to financial and currency markets, as compared with earlier periods in the century?

Yet in contrast with earlier periods the nineteenth century was marked by freedom for individual initiative and liberty of association for a great variety of undertakings.

The virtue of such theories is that they provide general frameworks that highlight certain aspects of the modern situation and permit comparisons to be made with earlier periods.

Standard cosmology — that is, the Big Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as inflation — is the prevailing scientific model for our universe, in which the entirety of space and time ballooned out from a very hot, very dense point into a homogeneous and ever - expanding vastness.

-------- «From 1346 so little work was going on (building / repairing the Cathedral) that wage rates can not be equated with the earlier period.»

Not exact matches

Average home prices in Dandong rose nearly 1 percent in April from March, according to data from the China Real Estate Association, compared with a 0.5 percent decline in the same period a year earlier, although city - wide averages tend not to fully reflect big price fluctuations at individual projects.

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

To find out, he ran an analysis using actual retirement periods beginning as early as 1926, along with their actual returns and actual inflation rates.

The company's losses come with revenue of $ 115 million for the first nine months of 2013, about double the revenue for the same period a year earlier.

In the first quarter of 2018, unallocated CSS costs were $ 11 million, consistent with the year - earlier period.

The company said Friday it earned net income of $ 15 million or six cents per share in the last three months of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by asset sales.

In the Dedicated Transportation Solutions (DTS) business segment, total revenue was up 12 % to $ 299 million and DTS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure excluding fuel and subcontracted transportation) was up 4 % to $ 201 million compared with the year - earlier period.

That compares with $ 712 million in profit on $ 4.2 billion in revenue for the same period a year earlier, an increase of more than 300 percent for profits and 55 percent for revenue.

In the Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) business segment, total revenue was $ 1.24 billion, up 10 % compared with $ 1.13 billion in the year - earlier period.

Analysts on average were expecting earnings of 65 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S. Revenue was $ 41.7 billion, compared with $ 41.8 billion in the year - earlier period.

Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump whose business dealings and foreign interactions made him a central focus of Mueller's investigation, will admit to lying about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the transition period before Trump's inauguration.

Early in his presidency, he exaggerated that the country had «picked up 45,000 mining jobs in a very short period of time,» adding that he planned to do away with onerous regulation surrounding the industry.

Advertising spending on Facebook's eponymous service grew 48 % in the first quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, he noted, citing data from advertising research firm Merkle.

Over the March quarter as a whole, China's exports to the US rose 14.8 % from a year earlier, outpacing a 8.9 % increase in imports over the same period, seeing its trade surplus with the US swell to $ 58.25 billion.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

CGI (TSX: GIB.A) said the net loss in its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter was just under $ 170 million or 58 cents per diluted share, compared with a profit of $ 69.6 million or 26 cents per share in the year - earlier period.

The troubled retailer, which earlier this year recognized there are doubts in the stock market about its future as an ongoing entity, expects a net loss of between $ 525 million and $ 595 million, compared with a $ 748 million loss in the same period last year.

On an adjusted basis, its earnings were $ 963 million, or $ 1.04 per share, compared with $ 1.37 billion, or $ 1.36 per share, in the same period a year earlier.

In the early years — what Smith calls a very «hands - on» period with «a lot of running» — most of the customer intelligence went toward improving the fans in every way.

It reported a surprise net loss of $ 91 million or 17 cents per share for the three months ended March 31, compared with a net profit of $ 119 million in the year - earlier period.

Bitcoin has had a difficult start to the year, with early gains wiped out over an 11 - day period.

Major countries are still coming to terms with the excesses of earlier years and experiencing what many have learned before, which is that after a period of financial distress it is usually a long and difficult recovery.

And QE is surely already hitting diminishing returns with the yield curve flattening and markets functioning without the illiquidity premia of the early recovery period.

Last month, the brand reported fourth - quarter sales of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8 percent rise over the year - earlier period, along with a comparable sales increase of 1.3 percent.

If you have product launches or sale periods, you may be able to give them an exclusive or provide them with early access.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

Topic 606 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within that reporting period, with early adoption permitted for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016.

Fourth - quarter revenue rose 7.3 % to $ 2.66 billion, which included an extra week compared with the same period a year earlier.

The period from 1914 to 1945 sees the spikes in the federal shares as a result of the war with a return to the prewar balance during the 1920s and early 1930s.

«Financial sponsors continued to pursue liquidity in their investments, with more than three times the proceeds raised by financial - sponsor - backed US IPOs in the fourth quarter of 2013 than the same period a year earlier.»

As Professor Paul Evans and I have argued in a paper for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada could once lay claim to a «special relationship» with China — a legacy of missionary and humanitarian contacts, early diplomatic recognition, and as a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboo.

These conditions comprise the following: S&P 500 overvalued with the Shiller P / E (the ratio of the S&P 500 to the 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) greater than 18; overbought with the S&P 500 within 3 % of its upper Bollinger band (2 standard deviations above the 20 - period average) at daily, weekly, and monthly resolutions, more than 7 % above its 52 - week smoothing, and more than 50 % above its 4 - year low; overbullish with the 2 - week average of advisory bullishness (Investors Intelligence) greater than 52 % and bearishness below 28 %; and yields rising with the 10 - year Treasury bond yield higher than 6 - months earlier.

It takes a very long period of time, so we could have some luck with money that was raised last year, but I'm reminded of the fact that, as an example, Carlin Trend exploration in Nevada began in earnest with the publication of that famous paper, Alignment of Mineral Deposits in Northeast Nevada, in the early 1970s.

Along with tax time, early January is period in which I spend the most amount of time on our personal finances.

U.S. exports to the EU from January through September fell 2.7 %, compared with the same period a year earlier.

The main source of risk to the export outlook apparent in the recent period has been associated with the appreciation of the exchange rate, and particularly the rapid appreciation that took place during 2003 and into the early weeks of this year.

This was called the «conundrum 2.0 ″ as it referred to an earlier period (2004) where Fed tightening was met with huge global demand for Treasury debt that led to smaller increases in longer maturity yields than expected.

So you'll have to weigh the pros and cons of locking earlier for a longer period (more expensive), or waiting to grab a lower rate with a shorter lock (riskier).

With Premier Jim Prentice increasingly warning of Alberta's tough economic times, it is not far fetched to believe the PCs could seek a new mandate earlier than the 2016 fixed - election period.

That's because alternative lenders are providing capital for a much shorter time period (months) rather than your local bank (years), and are likely to work with businesses in earlier stages of development (1 year + vs. 5 years +).

The lender reported making $ 4.8 bn (# 3.5 bn) compared with the $ 5bn posted in the the same period a year earlier — missing analysts» estimates.

In a nutshell, I have been positive on equities since early 2009 with a number of periods of caution over the years.