Like for like.

As for how Shanghai and Austin might stack up in like-for-like tests of their sex appeal, the reports offer possible clues.

Can we claim that it's a case of like for like, just because the numbers sitting around the table are the same?

America has done best at this; under Mr Roberts, like-for-like sales there were up by 7. 5% in October on a year earlier.

At HMV alone, like-for-like sales in the UK and Ireland were up 1. 7% in the 18 weeks to 29 August compared with a year ago.

Like-for-like growth of 7% drew a line under two unprecedented years of falling sales.

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Distributors (e. g. retailers) supplying new EEE shall take back old products on a like-for-like basis.

The sales growth forecast - for the year to 18 September - is on a like-for-like basis which strips out the effect of new stores.

Last week, Omnicom, a US rival, reported like-for-like growth of 5. 2 per cent in its first quarter.

H&M was late into Asia, which still provides only 3% of revenues. Its January like-for-like sales were up only 1% on January 2010.

Global like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of sales at restaurants opened in the past 12 months, rose by 4.

Clinton Cards, the UK card retailer, reported that like-for-like sales of its brand fell 7. 1 per cent in the 16 weeks to November 16.

In a like-for-like comparison, Zhejiang is the richest province in China.

One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved, so the comparison is not genuinely like-for-like.

Overall, ISC schools saw a modest 0. 8 per cent increase in pupils of all ages, on a like-for-like basis. Its members had 511, 677 children.

HMV posted an 1. 8% fall in like-for-like sales this morning and struck a deal to boost its digital business.

Reprovisioning of Government and Institutional facilities affected by the CKR project on a like-for-like basis;