How does this recovery truly measure up in comparison with previous recessions in our lifetime?
But comparison with previous periods is difficult because the club's latest accounts cover a 10-month period, rather than the usual 12.
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In the first quarter, the company expects off-peak seasonality to dampen on-quarter growth, although demand will be up in comparison with the previous year.
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This month, after Starbucks announced that the growth in sales at stores open at least one year had declined to 7% from 12% in the previous comparison, the stock dropped 7%.
The GDP figures were also enhanced by comparison with the previous three months, because the second quarter had an extra public holiday as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June, as well as unusually bad weather, which reduced growth.
Last year set a new record, with 77 murders reported by UNESCO which also uncovered a trend: The agency's report on this issue last month found that the percentage of murders in 2008-09 that were not linked to conflicts rose in comparison to the previous two-year period.
To take your point of comparison, in the previous -- in the last six months of 2008, we lost 3 million jobs.
And moreover, you have to remember that whatever you've gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured -- and they overcame them.
Some of the topics raised by the members' expenses committee have been raised with him before - including the cost of processing claims, a comparison of costs with the previous expenses system and the amount of time MPs were spending processing claims.
They tended to choose funds that had done better than their previous holdings (277 basis points better, about half on relative gains and half because the previous funds declined in comparison).
However, as the managerial saga rumbled on, fans and the Dundee board started to reflect on the very real achievements of his previous stints as boss in comparison to the dreadful position in which the club finds itself now.
By comparison, there were just 18 attacks in the previous two years.
But he didn't really have the momentum with this album as with previous albums, and certainly not in comparison to Adele's '21.
As I noted in a previous post, while the deal pales in comparison to some of the insanity that took place in the bubble years, the LinkedIn IPO ranks among the most impressive first-day moves in the last 10 years.
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He made a comparison with the long investigation into the CIA leak in the previous administration and that similar legal issues could apply in the CIA leak from "political officials" in a news story about Karzai's brother working for the CIA. My question is, is the Justice Department going to look into this matter?
There is then a TREND measure, showing the "aggregate" scores for this year and the previous three years, again with at-a-glance comparison bars - the maximum being 300.
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"Using this group as a comparison group takes into account possible genetic or lifestyle factors associated with present or previous psychiatric disorders, " the researcher notes.
The company has a difficult comparison with last year when there were many clearance sale events as goods bought under the previous management were sold off.
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By comparison, his Conservative challenger, Stephen Harper, is an unknown quantity, untested by previous high office and until recently written off as a not especially competent leader of the opposition.
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