Sentence examples for comparable basis from inspiring English sources

To assure that we are comparing minimum wage standards on a comparable basis, the minimum-to-average wage ratios in Table 2 have accounted for the fact that some provinces include social security payments and housing provident funds as part of the wage when calculating minimum wages.

And in respect of what matters to most of us, jobs, the eurozone part of the EU has been a spectacular disappointment - unemployment is more than 11%, and around 23% for under 25s (compared with 5.6% and 16% in the UK on a comparable basis).

To compare the nominal variables, we use the CPI to bring them to a comparable basis (in the table, all prices are expressed in 1999 pesos).

The current estimate on a comparable basis would indicate a cost per pound of $615.

"If 2006 stinks, 2007 on a comparable basis is going to look pretty incredible," he said.

That put the company slightly ahead of expectations on a comparable basis, at 29 cents a share.

On a comparable basis, the company earned $10.4 million, also 13 cents a share, in the comparable period last year.

Total sales, on a comparable store basis, increased 2% compared to a 1% increase last year.

But on a comparable store basis, sales grew 2.2percentt.

In a sell note on Pearson, Liberum said: Barnes and Noble Education, one of the major US college bookstore sellers, were trading down 13% yesterday after they lowered their full year revenue guidance on a comparable store basis and suggested that enrolment trends were likely to remain muted, particularly in Community College where Pearson is over-exposed.

Thus, it is understandable that the diversification of the English language is far greater in the British Isles than, for example, in North America (especially if the number of dialectal differences is considered on a comparable area basis, such as the number per 1,000 square miles).