Sentence examples for compared with a drop of from inspiring English sources

Sales at stores open at least a year declined by 8.3percentt, compared with a drop of 6.2percentt a year ago.

But Saks missed estimates, coming in at only a 1 percent gain — and that was compared with a drop of 19.6 percent a year ago.

Advance data released by the government's Central Statistical Organization said growth would be helped by the farm sector, which was expected to grow by 9.1percentt, compared with a drop of 5.2percentt a year ago.

That compared with a drop of 1.6percentt in the previous quarter, when Japan slipped back into a technical recession.

The 19-member currency bloc saw prices drop 0.3% last month compared with a drop of 0.6% in January, alleviating fears of an alarming deflationary spiral.

Ten minutes into the session in New York, the FTSE 100 index is down about 35 points, compared with a drop of 60 points when Wall Street opened.

This fall of 2.8 points of GDP compares with a drop of only 1.0 point during the eight years of the so-called Reagan revolution.

The proportion who access sites among the 35- to 54-year-old age group has risen from 28%to35%5%, compared with a drop from 55%to50%0% of 15- to 24-year-olds.

However, the forecast increase, only 700 000 tonnes, is relatively small when compared with a drop in maize production of almost 5 million tonnes.

Classified advertising linage was also lower in September at the company's flagship newspaper compared with a year earlier (a drop of 10.9percentt), a function of the sluggish job market.

Expectations for house prices increased marginally during the month, with consumers expecting the cost of property to rise by 0.1% during the coming six months, compared with predicting a drop of 0.1% in August.