Sentences with phrase «year than they did last year»

[1] The only program God is concerned with is whether or not the people who make the church look, act, and love more like Jesus this year than they did last year.

I've hit many more greens this year than I did last year, but I've had a complete lapse in my putting.»

Our annual Italian heritage event at Gracie Mansion drew hundreds more this year than it did last year, a clear testament to this mayor's strong relationship with his roots and our city's Italian community.»

Secondly, not only is that coal becoming more costly to mine, we have to burn more of it in order to generate an equal amount of electricity this year than we did last year.

â $ œSecondly, not only is that coal becoming more costly to mine, we have to burn more of it in order to generate an equal amount of electricity this year than we did last year.

Nearly two thirds of districts report hiring teachers on temporary permits and waivers, and half of those districts hired a greater proportion of teachers on these emergency - style permits this year than they did last year (see Figure 3).

«The truth is that North Carolina invested less in my son and your children's education this year than we did last year.

Combined with a recent increase in salary for the branch staff, the city is now paying an extra $ 289,000 more this year than it did last year just to keep operating at the same level of service.

This year's press event comes earlier in the year than did last year's Amazon conference, wherein the company pulled back the curtains on the Kindle Fire, its first foray into the tablet market.

The new Acer A1 has become cheaper, but also a technically poorer tablet, so if this is Acer's strategy for 2014, then Acer could be facing more financial hardship this year than it did last year.

They knocked it because according to them the material felt much cheaper this year than it did last year, and felt more flimsy.

Fewer homeowners are starting the New Year off with a foreclosure this year than did last year, according to a report from CoreLogic.

As it is, 54.5 % respondents to the CreditDonkey.com survey plan to spend more on Cyber Monday this year than they did last year.

I'm hoping that I can earn more this year than I did last year to build up my reserves a bit further.

«In the United States we're on track to actually sell more Nintendo 3DS systems this year than we did last year.

«Our goal is to get more Mods out this year than we did last year, no question,» he said.

Investors are on track to buy more multifamily properties this year than they did last year — impressive considering that last year apartment sale topped the peak year of the last real estate boom.

Forty percent of investors said they intend to spend more this year than this did last year, while 16 % said they would spend less.

Not exact matches

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam earned 5.3 % less last year than he did the year before — a mere 9.7 million Swiss francs ($ 10.26 million) for 2017 — thanks to shareholder pressure.

The stock did rally more than 40 percent last year, but Cramer thinks that only left Starbucks ripe for profit - taking in the wake of this most recent quarterly report.

In 2013, I always worked hard to make sure that everything was 100 % perfect, but I know that if I keep growing at a 90 % rate that is 90 % perfect, I will get a lot farther than I did last year.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

While Dropbox doesn't disclose its financials, it's reported to have generated more than $ 500 million in revenue last year.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

The executives just don't expect these conditions to last much longer than a couple of years.

But late last year he decided rather than continue to work for change in the policy world, he could do more good as an entrepreneur.

Or, «We did better than last year,» when last year was a disaster.

Calliet points to a photo shoot Boyega did around Thanksgiving last year for The Hollywood Reporter that shows off the actor looking «leaner and ripper» than he did in the movie.

In a survey of more than 800 full - time U.S. employees conducted by Globoforce in November of last year, 47 percent of respondents said they didn't think their company leaders cared about or were actively trying to create a «human» workplace.

«I think Comey did more damage than he realized or intended by how he handled things last year,» said former FBI counterintelligence agent Scott Olson.

This line of thinking is especially difficult to adapt in the consumer tech world, where every company does their best to convince you that this year's Thing is constantly superior than last year's Whatever.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

Last year, Chipotle did not see customers trade down from its steak and barbacoa after it increased prices on those items more than on other items.

The Sixers have blatantly tanked for high draft picks the last two seasons, and don't seem any closer to competing for a playoff spot than they did two year ago when master - tanker Sam Hinkie was hired as GM.

James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a small part of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»

Getting lots of money from Spotify may be great for music labels and owners, but it's not doing much for Spotify: The company lost $ 200 million last year, and the massive payments it makes to record companies (which amount to more than 85 % of its revenues) are a big part of the problem.

After all, as Richard Florida reported last year, the Census Bureau finds that 86 percent of U.S. workers still commute by car and more than 75 percent do so alone.

Last year, ClassPass facilitated 50,000 class reservations; this year, they've done more than one million.

B - school grads are poised to earn more in 2015 than they did last year, as the median starting salary breaks into the six digits.

More than half of people under 50 did not make retirement contributions last year, according to a recent report.

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation's survey, turkey dinner and all the fixings will cost about $ 49.48, or just 28 cents more than it did last year.

But watching what he's done over the last year or so is more than just a Beltway parlor game.

However, others such as Best Buy and Toys «R Us said they would hire fewer workers than they did last year.

And grow they did — to the tune of more than $ 37 million in sales last year.

«If you look back at the last eight years of what Republican senators did, there is plenty of bad behavior which is much worse than what Franken did the other day,» Tobias said hours before the Oregon senators announced their intention to block Trump's nominee to the 9th Circuit.

«What most don't understand is GDP is much more than a measure,» says Philipsen, who last year had a book published on the subject.

But research conducted by Dealnews reveals that last year Black Friday had only five percent more deals than Cyber Monday did, a drop of five percent from the prior year.