Excluding financials, 67% of companies reported earnings better than the year before, and 68% exceeded expectations.
Workplace suicides fell 10% in 2009 to 237 after climbing to a high of 263 the year before.
So in the year before I took office, this industry lost more than 400, 000 jobs.
Median margins for the Forbes 500s slipped to 6.3%last year, from 6.4% the year before.
Each season, he has had less talent at his disposal than he did the year before.
Publishers released 3, 277 cookbooks last year, up from 2, 836 the year before, according to R.
These could be things like switch grass, which the president mentioned the year before.
Portland, Maine, had nearly 100 inches this winter, up from 44 inches the year before.
Just the year before, Wiggins crashed out of the Tour with a broken collarbone.
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That is 51 more than the year before and the first rise since 2003.
"We're going to go to the year before if we have to, " said Gardner.
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The rate of cancellations fell to 7.9% in the quarter, compared to 8.8% the year before.
Sunglass Hut's volume was off 10% in the December quarter from the year before.
Aeropostale said that same-store sales declined by 3% in the fourth quarter from the year before.
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Seventy were killed on the job around the world, many more than the year before.
Since 2007, the year before the recession, real median household income has fallen 6.4%.
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There were tens of thousands of people using PDAs the year before as well.
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Roosevelt, it was commissioned from Kahn in 1973, the year before the architect's sudden death.
It's 1997, and 1984 before that, the year before the field expanded to 64 teams.
Every year from 2002 to 2007 his office secured more criminal convictions than the year before.
Last year, Oguz says, Afghan police seized three times more cannabis than the year before.
The cause was polio, which I caught the year before the vaccine became available.
Here's the catch: This was all true last year and the year before that, too.
Profit fell 20% from the year before for KB Home, to 18 cents per share.
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Rosen had just left Anne Klein and been through a divorce the year before.
Sunglass Hut's volume was off an estimated 10% in the December quarter from the year before.
Third quarter revenues of 193 billion pesos were up 4.5% from the year before.
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During this same period, sales of 105, 918 excavators represented an 84% increase over the year before.
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This was down on the year before and compares with a UK figure of 68%.
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The right-hander went 12-8 with a 5.02 ERA last year, down from 16-4 the year before.
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