Sentence examples for compared to a couple of from inspiring English sources

It is very good, compared to a couple of years ago.

Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "Despite a 7,000 drop in claimant count unemployment in March, the labour market data are clearly softer overall compared to a couple of months ago.

(In the House debate, Republican after Republican excoriated the Democrats for defying the will of the American people — as if the elections of 2006 and 2008 were inconsequential compared to a couple of last fall's Rasmussen polls on health care).

These results were also compared to a couple of days from the filtering algorithm results, which had first been subject to additional manual scrutiny.

In the studies introducing the individual methods, their performance was usually compared to a couple of existing methods with (somewhat expectedly) favorable results, reporting success rates around 90% regarding the top 3 and 70% considering the top 1 predicted sites.

I would like to take a moment to talk about what is different now compared to a couple of generations ago.

That said, it seems as if preferences for assortative matching are increasing for both genders, particularly as more women join the labor force (and therefore become more likely to have the same wage profile as their prospective partners, at least compared to women a couple of generations ago).

Compared to that, a couple of disgruntled executives are small potatoes.

The Lifeline survey found that although those who lived alone were more likely to say they "often felt lonely", at 77.61% compared to an average of 60%, couples also reported high rates of loneliness.

The S&P averaged +3% over the next couple of weeks, compared to a random two-week return of +0.1% during that time.

After all, what are a couple of selfies compared to a California-splintering earthquake that you can feel on the East Coast?