Example sentences of "compare with [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Brown , secretary of Edinburgh 's Princes Street Traders Association , reported that sales were better this January compared with last year . |
| 2 | Almost one-third of the fall in manufacturing employment was in the car industry , and in October the Ford Motor Company and General Motors ( GM ) both reported a fall in third-quarter profits of 45 per cent and 40 per cent respectively compared with third quarter 1988 . |
| 3 | Mr Livingstone 's vote was down 30 per cent compared with last year ; but all other left-wing candidates lost votes , too . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union 's grain harvest has been hit by drought and fuel problems , and there are predictions that the harvest could be between 195 and 200m tonnes , compared with last year 's 218m tonnes . |
| 5 | The company , 86 p.c. -owned by family interests of chairman Garry Weston , also chairman of Sunblest baking giant Associated British Foods , is changing its year-end to July and paying a second interim dividend of 86p , compared with last year 's final of 84p . |
| 6 | However , housing work in the public sector rose by 12 per cent compared with last quarter , a rise of 20 per cent over the year . |
| 7 | The number of sea-bed samples from surveys made by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office also continues to increase : it has almost doubled compared with last year . |
| 8 | In the first five months of the current year , sales fell 6% compared with last year at $2,750m . |
| 9 | Hardware sales also fell 15.4% compared with last year , followed by employment figures , down 3.72% on 1991 . |
| 10 | The 1993 LIBF had a distinctly European feel : the number of overseas visitors compared with last year rose from 1,868 to 2,462 , an increase of 32% . |
| 11 | increase in the number of patients treated compared with last year , which is higher even than the Government 's forecast increase in patient care . |
| 12 | this year compared with last year . |
| 13 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 14 | OMEGA products have performed well in the first half of the year achieving significant growth in volume compared with last year . |
| 15 | Wholesalers reported an increase in sales compared with last year , reversing the previous trend , and they also expect strong growth in sales in February . |
| 16 | Yes we have , er I mean , the er there are wasps years recorded way back from Gilbert White 's time ; there have been certain , wasp years , but in terms of people wanting action against wasps nests , er our own pest control branches throughout the country , er did a telephone survey ten days ago , and er in many parts , they range from er forty percent increase to eighty percent increase to one hundred percent increase in some parts of the country ; this season compared with last season . |
| 17 | 396,785 was the total attendance at 4l League matches , comparing with last year 's total at 40 matches of 447,352 |