In addition, the included patients presented with more favourable clinicopathological characteristics, with a considerably better 5-year survival (70% vs 39%), which might influence outcome.
The company did strike a positive note, however, on the state of the ad market, pointing out that it has got considerably better as the year has progressed.
Ben Bowling, an academic at the University of London and an adviser to the Metropolitan Police, argues that although there may have been a slight increase in the real level of racial crime in the past couple of years, race relations are still considerably better than they were 20 years ago.
If the same techniques were applied across the world, the size of the oceanic carbon sink, and its variation year by year, would be known considerably better than the size of the land sink.
It is in Benitez's favour, and Chelsea's, that the atmosphere this afternoon for West Ham's first visit to Stamford Bridge in two years will be considerably better than it was among a crowd of only 28,000 last Thursday night, when the raucous Romanian supporters of Steaua Bucharest were silenced only at the final whistle, Chelsea having hung on for a 3-2 aggregate win in the Europa League.
This 1-year survival is considerably better than that achieved using gemcitabine alone as documented in a previous phase III trial [ 20].
But there is no question that prospects for gay rights in the Supreme Court are considerably better than they were just a few years ago.
This year's 230,000 monthly pace of job growth is considerably better than we have seen in prior years.
The five-year survival rate is considerably better in early stages (around 90%) and relatively dismal (10 30%) in advanced stage [ 18].
Mr. Berdine said he expected the market to do considerably better in the final two months of the year.
