By comparison, expenditure on education increased last year.

相比之下，去年教育经费增加了。

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In comparison with the total number of earthquakes each year, the number of disastrous earthquakes is very small.

与每年的地震总数相比，灾难性地震的数量是非常少的。

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Are you closer to your goal this year in comparison to last year?

你有进步吗？和去年相比你是否更接近自己的目标了？

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Second, although output is up sharply compared with last year (when it slumped), the crucial comparison is with the year before.

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On a year-to-year comparison, June sales likely will be up about 21 percent from June 2011.

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The Nationwide conducts a straightforward monthly year-on-year comparison, although this could be affected by short-term blips.

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