Sentence examples for term compared with from inspiring English sources

Fewer children played truant this spring term compared with the spring term last year.

"We have increased funding by more than 27% in this parliamentary term compared with the last one," a spokesman says.

"In their minds, a vacation has benefits which are short term, compared with certain aesthetic procedures, which last indefinitely," he said.

Some 1.2% of all absence was for family holidays not agreed by their school last term, compared with 0.9% for the same term last year.

Children missed 3m unauthorised days of school last term, compared with 3.7m days of school in the same period last year.

The statistics are certainly on his side: six leak-related prosecutions in Mr. Obama's first term, compared with three under all previous presidents combined.

A week's holiday for a family of four in a two-bed apartment in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria costs £2,777 during the February half-term – compared with £1,102 for the same apartment a week earlier.

"The current slowdown is only likely to be relatively short-term compared with the planning process and the active life of a shopping centre," says Richard Dodd, a spokesperson for the British Retail Consortium, which represents British shopping centres.

Plastic film mulch increased crop yields in the short-term compared with the conventional tillage practice.

Full-term pregnancy appeared to account for most of the reduction in risk, since we saw no association with NHL risk among women who had been pregnant but never carried to full-term, compared with nulligravid women (RR = 1.12, 95% CI = 0.74 1.70).

Therefore, we questioned whether PASS thresholds are different at mid-term compared with short-term follow-up.