And it even got a tad bit easier for out-of-staters compared to previous years.
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There has been an increase in the number of campervans using the car park compared to previous years - an indication, perhaps, of people seeking a more affordable way to holiday.
"We have seen a marked increase in the last six months in the number of call outs that we have been asked to carry out when compared to previous years, " he said.
Low PGM prices compared to previous years means companies are not expanding or upgrading operations to the extent that they might have otherwise, said Carlos Sanchez, director of asset management with CPM Group.
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Health Minister Rosie Winterton praised ambulance services for successfully meeting the target for responding to the highest priority emergencies despite an increase of around 8% in the number of emergency calls made last year compared to previous years.
Ms Herve said the investigation would look at a drop in the numbers of births at the unit, as well as higher than expected numbers of women referred to consultant-led units, compared to previous years and similar units elsewhere.
Only three Latin countries had higher inflation rates during 2006 as compared to the previous years.
Meanwhile, Syria's arms imports have increased almost six times from 2007 to 2011 compared with the previous five years, largely from Russia, according to a report published Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
India possibly didn't realise they were up against a team whose batsmen were in peak and insatiable form - England batsmen had scored, for example, six double centuries in the past 14 months alone, compared to eight in the previous 21 years.
"From an overall market perspective, the market growth rate is expected to slow down compared with the previous years, " said Kim Hyun-joon, vice president of Samsung's mobile-communications business, during the company's January earnings call with analysts.
The figure is a marked improvement on previous years, compared to about 111 million middle class Africans, or 26.2% of the population, in 1980, 151 million or 27% in 1990 and 196 million or 27.2% in 2000.
The number approved by America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fell to a low of 18 in 2002 compared with an average of 59 in the previous three years, though the number rebounded to 34 in 2004.
Perhaps this will be yet another French political scandal, albeit small beer compared with some previous pots de vin, destined to drag through the years as the judicial system bends this way and that to the pressures of politics.
According to SIPRI, arms deliveries to Malaysia jumped eightfold in 2005-09, compared with the previous five years.
The economy expanded by just 0.3% in the three months to September, compared with the previous quarter, the slowest rate in more than three years.
However, according to insolvency experts, the level of both personal and corporate bankruptcies still remain high compared with previous years.
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