Sentence examples for third year on year from inspiring English sources

Nuts and Zoo's circulations dropped by one third year on year in the second half of 2013, after both titles' publishers pulled them from Co-op stores.

And Sainsbury's said sales of game overall, including venison, wood pigeon, quail and rabbit, were up by a third year on year.

Some titles, including the Manchester Evening News and Sunderland Echo, grew their number of daily online readers by a third year on year.

The government was facing renewed pleas to bail out Britain's ailing motor industry yesterday as figures showed sales of new cars had dropped by almost a third year on year.

The same company's talk station, LBC, consolidated its recent audience gains, down on the quarter but up year on year to 935,000 listeners, a 5.1% share, while there was a big rise for sister station LBC News 1152, up a third year on year to 447,000.

Ratings for the current run, which ends on 4 September, have been its lowest ever, averaging just 2 million viewers – down a third year on year and a far cry from its heyday in 2002 when it pulled in audiences of 8 million.

Wages are rocketing up by a third year-on-year.

On Monday the Bank of England said lending was up by almost a third year-on-year.

Transactions in Shanghai in the first half of January reportedly jumped by more than a third year-on-year, according to local estate agents.

Courgette volumes were up by nearly a third year-on-year last week, while Waitrose, last week sold 13% more courgettes than the same time last year.

The number of mortgages approved by high street banks was up by a third year-on-year in January, with strong increases in both remortgaging and house purchasing, figures from the British Bankers Associationn show.