year earlier

In 2008, after the men had been taking their pills for about 5? years, researchers told them to stop, a year earlier than planned.

Despite the array of policies, national real estate prices have continued to rise, jumping 10. 7 per cent in February from a year earlier.

That's compared with a quarter a year earlier when the company posted big drops in the value of its trademarks.

That is just about a tenth of the total retail sales, but a 95% increase on the value of internet transactions a year earlier.

The slowdown in both exports and imports is at least partly due to a higher comparison base in the year-earlier period.

A year earlier, however, he made a 24-day train trek across the country to Moscow and back.

But in the longer term, comparing the 12 months to August with the same period a year earlier, trade growth continued to slow.

In the U. S. , the monthly decline in vehicle sales accelerated for the last three months, falling 41% in February from a year earlier.

The FTSE-All World index was no higher than it had been a year earlier.

Despite this sharp rise, output in August was 0. 7% lower it had been a year earlier.

Profits fell in the first quarter from a year earlier, but by less than those of many rivals.

Anyone grumbling about the tone of the market needed only look back a year earlier and see how much worse it was then.

One, 68, was found lying face down in his apartment, where the gas and electricity had been cut off half a year earlier.

In fact, you were expected to become head of the party a year earlier.

Mr Golding's poll ratings are poor but not disastrous, with 32% approving of him in June, up from 25% a year earlier.

But less than a year earlier he had chastised Jeff Immelt, his successor, for failing to respect the discipline this dumb idea demands.

Analysts say ad revenue at many free newspapers has fallen by more than a third in recent months, compared with a year earlier.

The last figures, for June, showed Chinese copper imports running at almost quadruple their rate of a year earlier.

Osirak was a lone, poorly guarded, and inoperative nuclear plant that had a year earlier been damaged by an Iranian airstrike.

Food prices in India rose nearly 20% from a year earlier in early December, but a slowing rise suggested farm prices could be stabilizing.

Mortgage lending is still profitable, yet in June it was 3% lower than a year earlier, while net consumer borrowing fell for a second month.

The company reported a 94% increase in first-quarter profits from a year earlier.

The press reported that Flowers had been paid for the story, and that she had vigorously denied an affair a year earlier.

The company predicted that its full-year earnings will exceed profit a year earlier.

In September, Old Navy reported that sales at stores open at least a year increased 13% from a year earlier.

That animal's only companion had died just a year earlier due to old age.

A year earlier, the War of Independence, also known as the American Revolution, began.

When the agency revealed it had done an almost identical analysis a year earlier and found the same result, the controversy intensified.

The bank reported a third-quarter net loss applicable to shareholders of $91 million, compared with a profit of $498 million a year earlier.

The city-state had nearly a third more millionaires in 2010 than a year earlier, the swiftest increase of any country.

Lenovo earlier this year bought back Lenovo Mobile, its handset unit, which it had sold little more than a year earlier.

More than a year earlier, Cedras had signed an agreement to give up power, but when the time came to leave, he simply refused to go.

Steep declines in most of the second half of 2008 mean that the American index is still more than 20% lower than a year earlier.

But R&D as a percentage of revenues was up slightly from a year earlier because revenues dropped at a faster rate than R&D spending.

Crude imports stayed at elevated levels and coal volumes rose by more than a fifth from both April and a year earlier.

The rise, compared to a year earlier, breaks a 13-month decline in trade as a result of the global downturn.

Recession in the United States was the main cause, with exports there down by 36. 9% from a year earlier.

Our 2002 results mirrored those of a year earlier, positive gains but well below what we were capable of doing.

Utilization of biotechnology products, l-cysteine and gamma-Cyclodextrin, even those in sales for over a year earlier.

When Google decided to support OpenID a year earlier, it brought more than 100 million users into the market overnight.

Since Japan had become an ally of Germany a year earlier, Rabe hoped this would give weight to his protests to the Japanese government.

Ms Liu at Foxconn can now save at double the rate used to, and plans to marry a year earlier.

Just a year earlier hardbacks had been worth more than three times as much ase-books, according to the Association of American Publishers.

Ad spending in those markets in the first quarter was down at least 5% from a year earlier -- and much more in some markets.

In the second quarter of 2009 sales at stores open at least a year declined 8% on top of a 10% drop in the year-earlier period.

Few expected the nation to come under attack, least of all the man who had been installed in the White House a year earlier.

Chinese exports in January were 18% lower than they had been a year earlier.

In the case of oil, the price at the end of 2006, at $62 a barrel, was only $3 more than it was a year earlier.

That followed three quarterly losses, but was still less than a tenth of the $7. 7 billion the Wall Street firm made a year earlier.

FedEx reported a quarterly profit and said revenue had risen by 20% compared with a year earlier.

The report said China expected to see 124 million inbound trips this year, down five percent from a year earlier.

Vehicle sales for General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC fell during the month, compared with a year earlier.

But none of that has prevented a plunge in activity, with new mortgage loans approvals down 61. 9 per cent in January from a year earlier.

A higher tax rate was the net-margin nibbler, as the company dished out nearly double the tax load as it had a year earlier.

The FHFA index, which excludes houses that are financed with large mortgages, was still down compared with a year earlier.

The bulk of that increase was blamed on the rising cost of food, which surged 10% from a year earlier.

We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired.

In Beijing, hotel bookings in August 2008 were 39% lower than they had been a year earlier.

A year later, the roles were reversed in the two schools and the researchers compared each group's data against the year-earlier results.

And in a slightly worrying sign, Prius sales have turned lower each month on a year-earlier basis since September, when grants expired.

A year earlier, he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a deadly, fast-moving disease.

One sign: Electricity generation in China, which had been rising 15 percent a year, fell 7 percent in November from a year earlier.

But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier -- the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

On Tuesday, the company said its fiscal third quarter revenue rose 82% from a year earlier.

GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13. 4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching.

GM, which has two joint ventures in the country, also hit a monthly record in April with its sales jumping 50 percent from a year earlier.

The company's earnings rebounded in the first half of the year compared to the year earlier, when global trade virtually ground to a halt.

Last month, by contrast, VAT remained at 15%, petrol prices stayed put and retailers discounted much less than a year earlier.

Just over a year earlier, of course, Americans had elected a black president, a result that clearly shook up the old patterns.

A year earlier, it had quarterly revenue of $9. 87 billion and a profit of $1. 82 a share.

The airline had started up a year earlier, with three planes shuttling between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

And since he had been anointed CEO a year earlier, his company was doing noticeably better.

The government confirmed the German economy contracted in the second quarter compared with a year earlier.

Almost 3% of commercial mortgages were reported at least 90 days late between April and June. That was double a year earlier.

Official figures show China's consumer price index fell a little more than one percent from the same period a year earlier.

Nineteen percent of those surveyed said they faced a crunch, down from 22 percent a year earlier, and less than half the figure in 2006.

Home prices in 20 U. S. cities rose in May from a year earlier more than forecast as a government tax credit temporarily underpinned sales.

China's consumer-price index jumped 4. 4% from a year earlier in October, its fastest rise in two years.

GM's China auto sales rose 10% from a year earlier in the first quarter, about one-third as fast as they rose in the year-earlier quarter.

SAIC Motor Corp. , China's largest car maker by sales volume, said its first-half net profit more than quadrupled from a year earlier.

Oil imports of more than five million barrels a day remain strong but don't display much growth from a year earlier.

Sweden's rescue of its banking system in 1992 pushed its gross publicdebt up to 73% of its GDP from 55% a year earlier.

The company lost $7 million this quarter in contrast to a profit of $6. 2 million a year earlier.

That excludes financial companies, whose gains were skewed that quarter because many had posted losses or tiny profits a year earlier.

railway traffic in May was almost a quarter below its level of a year earlier.

As a result, auto makers face tough comparisons with a year earlier, as well as sated demand.

That intervention helped Chinese exports to surge 46 percent in February compared with a year earlier.

Nationwide property sales in terms of floor space also rose 16. 6% from a year earlier in September, the bureau said.

HTC's net profit and revenues more than doubled in the second quarter compared with a year earlier.

Economists widely expect China's inflation to have hit another two-year high last month, with the CPI rising 4. 7% from a year earlier.

The company reported net income of $1. 3bn for the quarter, up 47 per cent from a year earlier but below expectations.

July was the third consecutive month of slowing in the appreciation of real estate prices from a year earlier.

A year earlier, it released a stamp edged with lace to celebrate northwest Switzerland's traditional lace-making industry.

At the end of the second quarter, about 9 percent of commercial real estate loans were delinquent, nearly double the level a year earlier.

Consumer prices rose 4. 4 percent in October from a year earlier, the fastest pace in two years.

In equities, pay is expected to shrink 29% from a year earlier, while investment bankers are expected to take a 14% haircut.

U. K. banks are required to report earnings only twice a year, so HSBC's quarterly figures from a year earlier weren't available.

GM's sales in China in August more than doubled on a year earlier. For 2009 as a whole the company predicted a 40% rise.

A year earlier Mr. Jobs had lured Mr. Sculley to Apple to be its chief executive.

Since Billie was born in June, she started school a year earlier than me and I always call her "sister" .

Worldwide personal computer shipments between April and June were down 5% from a year earlier, a report has said.

Every city included in the survey experienced a drop in prices from a year earlier, a trend that has extended for five months.

Ford Motor Co. and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. said this month that sales in July fell from a year earlier, while BYD Co.

Exports climbed a less-than-forecast 17. 1 percent in September from a year earlier, customs bureau data showed in Beijing today.

A year earlier, a British research institute rated Beijing a third-tier city on a par with Warsaw and Bangkok.

First-quarter earnings beat expectations, but were still far down from a year earlier.

The bank recorded GBP 1. 4 billion in impairment charges and credit write-downs, up 63% from GBP 860 million a year earlier.

The retailer spent 21 million euros more than a year earlier forinterest payments as it changed short-term debt into long-term loans.

Shanghai GM, GM's joint venture with Chinese carmaker SAIC Motor, says vehicle sales jumped more than 50% from a year earlier in May.

Burgeoning sales in Asia (amounting to pound150m, up 68% on the same quarter a year earlier) accounted for much of this.

A year earlier, the former player had accepted an offer to coach a subsidiary team recently dropped to Third Division.

We had just released our finest creation -- the Macintosh -- a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.

China's GDP barrelled along in the first half of the year, growing by 11. 1% compared with a year earlier.

The jewellery company also reported that sales in November and December were 17% higher than a year earlier. Sales in Europe went up by 30%.

In the second quarter it sold 11m smartphones, more than doubling its revenues compared with a year earlier.

There was also bad news on the trade front, with China's exports falling 17. 5 percent in January from a year earlier.

Especially since we found out on Thursday that GDP grew 10. 3% in the second quarter of 2010 from a year earlier.

Worldwide, the company's stores averaged $12 million in revenue, a 69 percent increase from $7. 1 million a year earlier, Oppenheimer said.

Exports may decline 6 percent in 2009 from a year earlier because of the global recession, he said.

Chinese authorities cut the export quota for the first half of this year by 35 percent from a year earlier.

ADP says the number of background checks it performed for companies rose 24% in the first quarter from a year earlier.

The housing market is also slowing. Sales fell by almost 12% in October, compared with a year earlier.

It said the number of U. S. job postings on the Internet rose to 4. 7 million on Dec. 1, up from 2. 7 million a year earlier.

The median forecast in a Dow Jones Newswires poll of economists was for industrial production to rise 18. 6% from a year earlier in April.

A rate that compares the current reporting period (e. g. a month or quarter) with the same period a year earlier.

Figures announced on December 10th showed that exports fell by a startling 2. 2% in November, compared with a year earlier.

Toyota reported a 32% decline in operating profit between July and September, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

Sales at the Laiwu Sheng Yuan Building Materials Co. have plunged 50 percent from a year earlier, said general manager Wang Jian.

In March Japanese consumer prices (including energy and food) rose by 1. 2% compared with a year earlier, the highest pace in a decade.

Mr. Li said that over the same period, domestic passenger traffic rose more than 23% from a year earlier.

Yet Americans are driving fewer miles from a year earlier, and consumer spending remains weak.

Assets under management on June 30, 2010, in the bank's wealth management division were up $3. 1 billion, or 37%, from a year earlier.

The average cost of a metric ton of wheat rose to $246 in 2010 compared with $218 a year earlier.

AOL, then the third-largest online service provider, had gone public only a year earlier, after some fairly rocky beginnings.

Year-to-year growth may be slowing, but auto sales were still up 48% in the first half from a year earlier.

Local manufacture was down 60% in February and sales fell 30% in March, compared with a year earlier.

China's online recruitment market, on the other had, grew by 36 percent in the first quarter over the same period a year earlier.

The fastest growth came from private-equity, which raised $53 billion in three months, two-thirds more than a year earlier.

This contrasts with numbers at the end of last October that were running 20% higher than a year earlier.

Positive numbers from U. S. stores also keep coming in, albeit against weak year-earlier sales, he said.

That represented a 50 percent increase inseasonally adjusted sales compared with a year earlier.

A year earlier, Rupert Murdoch had bought MySpace, a rival whose audience even today remains bigger than Facebook's, for $580m.

The price of pork, China's staple meat, rose 56. 7 percent in July over a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.

Partly thanks to the high currency, applications for student visas as of March were down nearly 10% from a year earlier.

The figure was 10. 7 percentage points higher from a year earlier, showing the adverse effects of the economic slowdown was still under way.

Despite the recovery, German exports in June were down 22 percent compared to a year earlier.

It drew an estimated 17. 6 million users in the U. S. in May, a more than 27-fold increase from a year earlier.

Major retailers in the U. S. reported a 6. 5% increase in sales in November from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters.

Sales at the high-end store chain fell by 20% compared with a year earlier.

Its revenues dropped more than 30% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier.

It could be time for a repeat; crude was 47 per cent more expensive on Thursday than a year earlier and 80 per cent above the 2009 average.

Hitoshi's mother had died a year earlier and his father had sounded old and tired.

GM already produces vehicles in India and its sales there rose 65 per cent in November over the same period a year earlier to 7, 118 units.

The company had a year-earlier loss of 149 million pounds, caused by currency and interest rate hedging.

The American Apparel and Footwear Association estimates prices for its goods will be up 4% to 6% in the fall from a year earlier.

Its third-quarter fixed income net revenue was down by more than half from a year earlier.

BYD, partially owned by investor Warren Buffett, said its car sales in January fell 15% to 52, 054 vehicles compared with a year earlier.

The family's problems began a year earlier, when the small herd of goats that sustained them, perished in the worsening drought.

Sales of vehicles, including cars, fell by more than a quarter from a year earlier.

Taking the first quarter as a whole they rose by just $8 billion, compared with $154 billion a year earlier.

Another, comScore, reckons 5m people visited British dating sites in September, more than a year earlier.

At GFT in Ada, Mich. , a large online currency-trading platform, volume for the first two quarters was up 78% from a year earlier.

But the high prices for most of the second quarter hurt jewelry demand, which declined 5% compared to the same quarter a year earlier.

Land sales in 2010 had a total value of about $500 million, more than double the figure from a year earlier.

Imports rose 22. 7 percent in July from a year earlier, less than half the annual growth rate seen in June.

At dbFX. com, volume rose 37 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier and its customer numbers more than doubled in 2008.

China's broadest measure of money supply, or M2, was up 22. 5% at the end of March from a year earlier.

WACKER silicon business unit generated for over a year earlier: 86. 5 (130. 7 million euros less than) over a year and last quarter value.

Meanwhile, its global production surged in the same period, with an 82. 7% jump from a year earlier.

That's up 23% from the previous month and a staggering 65% from a year earlier.

In January, Taiwan and the Philippines saw the value of exports plummet by over 40% compared with a year earlier.

Camping holidays in England increased by 29% in 2009 from a year earlier, on statistics from VisitBritain, an official tourism outfit.

Meanwhile, Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. said its first-half net profit rose 35% from a year earlier.

The US market contracted by 13 per cent in June compared with a year earlier.

It had 7. 4 per cent fewer jobs than a year earlier.

Prices of new homes rose in January from a year earlier in all but two of 70 cities monitored by central planners.

Japan's core CPI, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, declined 1. 2% from a year earlier in February, recent government data showed.

But a measure of producer prices pointed the other way, dropping 0. 3 percent from a year earlier.

"This year, more job vacancies will be released after the holiday break, up approximately 20 percent from a year earlier, " Feng said.

its defects more clearly after the operation scar, a year earlier to gradually recover.

Excavator sales fell 10 percent in May from a year earlier, possibly foreshadowing a construction bust.

The company reported in April that its first-quarter profit fell 31% from a year earlier to $1. 95 billion on revenue of $36. 6 billion.

But Chinese exports still fell roughly a quarter in the first five months from the same period a year earlier.

A year earlier he had teamed up with Mary Ford, a country singer whom he later married.

The data show that China's gross domestic product expanded at 9. 8 per cent in the fourth quarter compared to a year earlier.

Sales of single-family homes and condominiums declined 6. 8% from a year earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4. 6 million units.

Bank of America posted a net profit for the first quarter of $3. 2 billion, a drop of 24% compared with a year earlier.

At GQ's same event a year earlier, Megan brought a more casual style.

Last week, Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd. reported a 78% drop in quarterly profit from a year earlier.

Few companies are in a position to raise prices and in October, the consumer-price index was down 0. 2% from a year earlier.

Its 'flagship' magazine has been crushed by online competitors and its print revenue fell 44% in the third quarter from a year earlier.

A year earlier Cannon Beach was hit by a tsunami (an enormous wave).

Pisa but in ancient times used Gregorian calendar than a year earlier, so the campanile di pisa of Pisa was founded in 1173 .

Home prices and transactions have rebounded sharply and car sales leapt 70 percent in July from a year earlier.

Shipments to China, the world's supposed growth engine, fell 15 per cent compared to a year earlier.

Foreign orders for plant and machinery are down by almost a fifth from a year earlier, according to VDMA, an industry group.

Industrial profits rose by 70% in the three months to November compared with a year earlier.

Renminbi-settled trade transactions came to Rmb957bn ($146bn) in the first half of this year, from next to nothing a year earlier.

The world's second-largest economy grew 9. 6 percent in the July-September quarter over a year earlier, official figures showed Thursday.

China's broad M2 measure of money supply rose 28. 46% in June from a year earlier, picking up from the rate of 25. 74%YoY in May.

According to Statistics New Zealand, short-term visitor arrivals from India are up 13. 3% as of May, compared with a year earlier.

China has reported an unexpectedly low trade surplus for March, falling 38-percent from a year earlier.

China's economic growth rate cooled to 7. 6% in the second quarter from a year earlier, its slowest pace since the 2008 global crisis.

In the first quarter, Morgan Stanley's overall compensation and benefits fell about 45% from a year earlier.

The core inflation rate rose just 0. 9% in June from a year earlier-among the lowest levels seen since 1966.

Demand for German machine-tools, for instance, slumped by 40% in December from a year earlier.

Over January and February, profits at industrial firms slumped 37% from a year earlier.

There were 81 million smartphones sold world-wide in the third quarter, the analysts at Gartner say, almost twice as many as a year earlier.

That's improved from a year earlier but weaker than analysts expected.

Sharp falls in the price of oil and other commodities slowed price rises to a meagre 1% from a year earlier, compared with 1. 9% in October.

The nation's consumer price index rises 4. 4% in October compared with a year earlier.

China's gross domestic product expanded 9. 7% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier.

In February nearly 40% more applied for shelter in New York than had done a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the South Korean government reported that exports held up unexpectedly well, with 13. 8 percent growth from a year earlier.

Forecast for the year 2009, WACKER still think sales and operationsnge will be significantly lower than a year earlier.

In the photo at right, Haitians sit on a pew amid the wreckage a year earlier.

This year, Chinese steel mills had been seeking a 40 to 45 percent cut from a year earlier.

In the first four months of this year, FDI jumped more than 59 percent from a year earlier to $35 billion.

Dell said revenue from the consumer PC division was flat from a year earlier.

If so, car output in June could be around 50% higher than in March (but still down by 25% on a year earlier).

China Mobile's average revenue per user dropped slightly to Rmb70 in the first six months of this year from Rmb72 a year earlier.

The National Statistics Bureau says industrial output expanded 9% from a year earlier, faster than 7% in April.

As construction has slowed in recent months, so has China's steel production: Output was down 5. 5% in September from a year earlier.

Its work force at the end of July totaled 12, 722, a 1 percent increase compared with a year earlier.

It actually closed shop a year earlier than planned, and earned a tidy profit.

Energy and resources now account for about 7% of the companies investments, up from 5% a year earlier.

The division had recorded negative net revenues a year earlier.

Total inward investment was $23 billion in 2007 (the latest available figure), up over two-fifths on a year earlier.

Yet, according to the latest figures from the UN, noncombatant deaths were up 15% in the first half of 2011 compared with a year earlier.

Producer prices were up 4. 3 percent in January from a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday morning.

Urumqi, capital of the far-western Xinjiang region, led the pack with housing prices up 9. 2 per cent from a year earlier.

India's oilseeds plantings are also off to a good start, with winter plantings rising 2% from a year earlier.

June imports of iron ore, for instance, dropped 15% from a year earlier, and those of copper fell 31%.

China's exports tumbled by 13% (in dollar terms), in the fourth quarter, leaving them 3% lower in December than a year earlier.

Exports from China grew a more-than-forecast 24. 5 percent in August from a year earlier, government data released on Sept. 10 showed.

The average price of a used vehicle sold through October reached $18, 570, compared to $17, 968, a year earlier, said Edmunds. com.

Fourth-quarter growth in gross domestic product slid to 6. 8% from a year earlier, well below habitual double-digit levels.

This comes after China reported an 11. 7% rise in urban home prices last month from a year earlier, its fastest gain in five years.

A year earlier, state media reported that a drunken tourist tried to hug the panda, who bit him.

During the first two months this year, China exported 42, 600 metric tons of refined copper, eight times the amount a year earlier.

China's January refined copper imports were 41 percent more than a year earlier, even after declining 15 percent from December.

Google revealed rebound momentum, its market share over the same period a year earlier than the slightly by 2. 2%.

The senior pastor was diagnosed with liver cancer a year earlier.

China's GDP grew by 9. 8% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, a more rapid pace than was expected.

The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and fuel, rose 1. 3 percent in May from a year earlier.

Car registrations fell 15. 9% for the first four months of the year from a year earlier.

The level of completed property sales in the three months to April was a third lower than a year earlier, after 12 months of contraction.

Varley and Diamond declined bonuses for a second year in 2009, even after second-half profit more than doubled from the year-earlier period.

HP's fourth-quarter earnings beat analysts' estimates (net income for the quarter rose to $2. 5 billion, up 5% from a year earlier).

Kraft said that in many cases it was dealing with costs that were up 20 percent and 30 percent from a year earlier.