Sentence examples for decent compared from inspiring English sources

In early September, I noted that this year's sea ice track was "decent" compared to 2012.

An average net interest margin of 2.36% looks decent compared with the 1.5-2.5 1.5-2.5eloped markets.

For its size, the 2.27percentt user growth looked decent compared to the 4.8percentt growth Twitter says pushed it to 284 million users.

He has scored five goals this season, second only to Oumar Niasse, and his performances have been decent compared to many of his teammates.

It wasn't until I reunited with my teacher that I realized I actually received a decent education compared to many students today.

But you could still argue the class is a decent investment compared with the alternatives because yields there are so low.

Even with the huge, "temporary" increases in Illinois, individuals and corporations are better off here than in Wisconsin — and in decent shape compared with Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota and Michigan, too.

Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals (a proxy for poverty) got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%.

The athletic competition had shown promise in its early January premiere, attracting 12.1 million viewers and particularly high ratings among adults 18 to 49. Six weeks later, the last episode of the show delivered a much smaller audience of 7.3 million, a rather decent showing compared to its performance last night.

In Germany the club verein, or association, is a central feature of social life, and most sports clubs tend to be well organised, with decent facilities compared with the many British amateur sports clubs living hand-to-mouth and the rundown state of many local authority football pitches.

After three years of decent growth (compared with Germany's one), the French economy was closer to full capacity a year ago, and therefore was less in need of deeper cuts in interest rates.On budgetary policy, governments are fenced in by the "stability and growth pact", signed at the behest of the previous German government.