Sentence examples similar to compared to past year from inspiring English sources

European countries have not reported an unusual number of deaths among children from influenza compared to past years, Dr. Stöhr said.

There was relatively little coverage of the Trussell Trust's annual figures last week, at least compared to past years.

With only 10 states voting on Super Tuesday, it would be easy to dismiss it as a little wimpy compared to past years.

Ritvo said he expected both the attendance and total betting handle to be down significantly Saturday, compared to past years, owing largely to a near-constant rainfall that arrived early in the week and lasted through the race.

Second, the Afghan government has proved more durable at relatively low levels of U.S. support (compared to past years) than many expected, which may have shifted calculations on the Taliban side.

But that's a drop in the bucket compared to past year-over-year increases.

Again, nothing to celebrate, but compared to past years it could have been worse.

I think this weekend we're just lacking speed compared to past years.

At Disrupt SF (September 5-7), TechCrunch is running two big stages and doubling the amount of programming compared to past years.

Compared to past years, New York saw fewer of what the report calls "mega breaches," with only two massive incidents resulting in widespread exposure.

In 2007 the FC data was gathered in the most detailed and comprehensive way compared to past years due to the use of the data from automatic identification system and IMO reports.