Sentence examples for be a sharp improvement from inspiring English sources

That would be a sharp improvement on what came before.

That would easily surpass the original goal of $10 million for the annual dinner and would be a sharp improvement over last year's dinner, which raised $11.7 million amid the presidential campaign.

That would be a sharp improvement from the 5% drop of the first quarter.

Still, the figures are a sharp improvement from the period a year ago, when Lucent posted a net loss of $3.7 billion, or $1.09 a share.

GM's loss, for a period from 10 July to 30 September, was a sharp improvement on previous quarters.

That doesn't mean it will necessarily hit the target of 6.3%, but is a sharp improvement on 2011's 9.4%.

The government's final estimate of a 3.1 percent growth rate for third-quarter gross domestic product is a sharp improvement over its initial estimate of 2 percent — a figure that it later increased to 2.7 percent based on a buildup in business stockpiles.

President Obama's budget for 2013 is a sharp improvement over his 2012 budget.

That was a sharp improvement over the 45,000 total positions lost during the previous two months.

Even so, the numbers are a sharp improvement over CNN's ratings in the timeslot over the past month.

Likewise there was a sharp improvement over time in use of formal risk scoring for patients with pneumonia.