Sentence examples for a better than expected performance from inspiring English sources

Engineering group Smiths has seen its shares slip back despite a better than expected performance in its first half.

Back in the UK, publishing group Pearson - joint owner of Penguin Random House - put on 60p to £12.96 after a better than expected performance.

While there are warning signs of possible problems ahead, the dashboard shows a better than expected performance in four of the eight categories analysed.

Overall the FTSE 100 is currently 55.24 points higher at 6785.96, with the latest UK services sector survey showing a better than expected performance in November.

Labour won 29 of the 60 seats on the assembly – a better than expected performance but shy of an outright majority.

Whitbread is the biggest riser in the leading index, up 131p to £41.72 after its latest update showed a better than expected performance from its Costa coffee business.

The better than expected performance is a fillip for Mothercare, whose chief executive Simon Calver departed in February just weeks after the company was forced to issue a profits warning.

Larry Sabato, a longtime Virginia political chronicler, attributed Cuccinelli's better than expected performance to Obamacare.

Although Allied Capital still has to work through some credibility issues to regain investor confidence, its better than expected performance in the second-quarter was a step in the right direction.

Nevertheless, President Nicolas Sarkozy, currently in Asia, was quick to claim credit for the better than expected performance in France, which is likely to feature as a key theme in next year's presidential election.

CSFB said, "While this deal had long been rumored, we believe the combination of better than expected performance at Disney and weakening results for Comcast created a sense of urgency for this bid".