Sentence examples for year-on-year comparison from inspiring English sources

John Lewis Edition launched in the autumn of 2009, so no year-on-year comparison figures are available.

The Independent on Sunday's year-on-year comparison is adversely affected by the decision to cut back on bulks and virtually eliminate overseas distribution.

Given that February is somewhat of rogue month, the best guide to the state of the overall market is to carry out a year-on-year comparison.

Come January, Piers Morgan Tonight will no longer enjoy its year-on-year comparison with the feeble ratings of King's last spell in the interviewer's chair.

First, inflation will reappear suddenly at the end of 2015 as cheaper fuel and energy drops out of the year-on-year comparison.

A year-on-year comparison of the last two weeks in December shows that the number of patients forced to wait more than four hours to be treated was almost treble what it was in the same fortnight in 2013.

The result distorts year-on-year comparisons; one week will lag expectations while another exceeds them.By the end of December, however, all this should be much clearer as aggregate holiday figures replace moving averages.

"It's always dangerous to read too much into particular episodes of promotional activity," said Douglas MacNeil, an analyst with Blue Oar Securities, "because one never knows what year-on-year comparisons there are, nor do you ever know how many seats are being made available at the advertised fares".

GNM's Sunday title has stopped distributing overseas, which adversely affects year-on-year comparisons.

In the next 12 months year-on-year comparisons ought to be flattering.

Year-on-year comparisons are complicated by the evolving e-tail business itself.