Sentence examples for comparison with the same weekend from inspiring English sources
Cars' strong performance helped the overall box office for the top 12 movies rise 8% in comparison with the same weekend last year, when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie battled it out in Mr and Mrs Smith.
Overall, the box office this weekend was up 16.75 percent, compared with the same weekend last year.
Overall, the box office this weekend was down about 27percentt compared with the same weekend last year.
Still, ticket sales were up 42% compared with the same weekend last year. .
Since every single Shrek picture opened on the same weekend, the comparisons are easy to make.
The weekend after Thanksgiving was popular for online shopping too, with sales up 26% compared to the same weekend last year.
By comparison French film-maker Luc Besson's dark sci-fi Lucy grossed $4.66m on the same weekend.
The same weekend has been designated a "Golden Weekend" with free public open days at 25 Landmark Trust properties.
The same weekend, Johnny Depp's $60 million production "Mortdecai" opened with just $4 million in sales.
The film placed first in the weekend's box office with $25,812,796, surpassing Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Mirrors, which debuted the same weekend.
