Sentence examples for because of a calendar from inspiring English sources

(A significant part of that increase is because of a calendar shift involving Easter).

Dozens of chain stores will report their August sales on Thursday, and while analysts expect some improvement from July, that is mainly because of a calendar shift that moved tax-free holidays into August.

This year, because of a calendar anomaly, there's a double ghost month, from July 25 to Sept. 21, extending the time the spooks are out wandering around.

This is because a calendar year does not consist of a whole number of weeks.

An aide to Mr. Reid said that the measure was unlikely to come to a vote before March because of a crowded legislative calendar.

Senior House Republican aides and lawmakers say they do not plan to hold votes on many of the agenda items the party plans to unveil -- such as a health care plan to replace Obamacare, or tax reform -- because of a tight legislative calendar over the next few months and the reality that none of the bills would be signed by the president, anyway.

"The numbers are increasingly confusing because of the calendar shifts," said Jim Sluzewski, a spokesman for Macy's.

"It really is liberating," he said, noting the stress that came from needing to read one another's mind on command because of a mark on the calendar.

It was a brief and intimate moment in the White House, held because of a quirk of the calendar that placed the constitutionally mandated start of the new term on a Sunday.

In Canada, the company said sales to retailers fell 5.1 percent, in part because of a shift in the calendar that moved results for Canada Day into the second quarter.

It's not surprising that Day of the Dead merchandise sales would flow into the Halloween retail season because of the calendar, said Tricia Lacy, president of Beistle Co., a century-old Pennsylvania maker of decorations and party goods for retailers.