Sentence examples for gifts compared with from inspiring English sources

According to William Lynch, Gifts.com's chief, about 9percentt of the searches conducted in November were for business gifts, compared with about 7percentt a year earlier.

Stand-up comedy is a particularly popular gift, with more than half (53%) of the comedy DVDs sold being used as gifts, compared with just 28% of all DVDs.

According to panel data, design and money-back guarantees are more important for the purchase of surprise gifts (compared with non-surprise gifts), whereas good deals appear less important, and brand name does not seem to matter any more than it does for gifts not intended as a surprise.

Future research examining differences in prescribing behavior among physicians exposed to policies that completely ban gifts compared with limiting the size of gifts would help shed light on this important topic.

Convivial, garrulous, dandified, Byrne's graphic gifts compare with David Hockney but they don't always stretch to actual paintings.

The preference may be for both colour (white) and shape (round): Stålhandske [ 28] showed increased female preference the whiter the gift, and Andersen et al. [ 27] showed male preference for a round gift compared with an elongate one, probably because the latter mechanically inhibited his access to the female's genitalia.

A total of £659.8m was given in cash donations in 2012-13, excluding pledges and gifts in kind, compared with £534.6m in 2011-12.

The gifts are minuscule compared with the $100 million, 10-year scientific grant to Stanford, which is establishing a research center that will focus on technologies that could provide energy without adding to greenhouse gases linked by scientists to global warming.

In addition, Toys2Wish4.com will gift-wrap your items free (compared with $2.99 for gift wrap per package at eToys.com and KBtoys.com).

Egg hatching success differed among groups, and was higher when females had received a gift (PG, FG and WG) compared with no gift (Table 2).

Giving by community foundations, which grant money directly and via giving accounts directed by donors, increased an inflation-adjusted 2.7percentto to $4.6 billion, compared with corporate gifts of $4.4 billion.