On Thursday, the company said it saw a 2.6 per cent drop in comparable sales in the most recent quarter, a weak performance that was nonetheless an improvement over the dismal 6.1 per cent year over year decline it recorded in the previous quarter.

What you're seeing is year by year frequency of thrived and throve over time.

This is expected to double, triple or maybe quadruple year over year for the foreseeable future.

As a result of this strategy, the social assistance caseload continues to decrease year over year.

By many accounts, there was no marked improvement in economic, social and cultural rights in the past year.

Tom has lived in Boston for over a year.

Most countries increased funding levels over the past year.

Every year, Russia provides over 700 State funded scholarships.

And that will be basically built over the next year, and it will be launched June a year from now.

This has to be our focus over the next year.

Encouraging overall progress had been made over the past year.

The banks' projects reflect multi year commitments recorded in the year in which they are approved but disbursed over several years.

Over 15,000 scientists go to San Francisco every year for that.

So I said, I'm going to spend a year over here.

Over 15,000 scientists go to San Francisco every year for that.

And we'll also get returns over 150 billion dollars a year.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

Year after year after year, absolutely incredible.

Due to strong job growth, this trend continued through 2003 and 2004 with year over year declines of 7.9 percent and 7.0 percent respectively.

Global crude steel making capacity is expected to increase from 1,184 Mt. per year in 2004 to over 1,305 Mt. per year in 2006.

For the Haitian people, last year was supposed to be a year of celebration marking the bicentenary of its victory over slavery and colonization.

About a year from now, we'll have over half a million samples.

Invite your friends and neighbors over and repeat once a year, maybe.

That factory over a dozen people have committed suicide already this year.

We do not believe that has been achieved over the past year.

Important progress has been made in this regard over the past year.

Year after year, after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition.

The Board established that the funding cycle should be adjusted to the calendar year over a three year period to ensure that by 2008 grants would be paid to beneficiary organizations early in the year.

That day, shoppers all over the world made a total of 1.48 billion payments by way of Alipay, an increase of 41 year on year.

I got a visit almost exactly a year ago, a little over a year ago, from a very senior person at the Department of Defense.

In the light of that information, the Icelandic Ministry of Transport has developed a four year road safety improvement strategy which started last spring.

Exports in January were up 20 over the same period of last year.

Saul reigned a year and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

Saul reigned a year and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

Saul reigned one year and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

Saul reigned one year and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

Each year since 1997, YES has helped over 80,000 young Canadians find employment.

This has been the case since monthly reporting began over one year ago.

So all the way over on the left of this graph, what you see is many OECD countries saving over a quarter of their GDP every year, and some OECD countries saving over a third of their GDP per year.

Over the past year, treaty bodies have also adopted well over 100 decisions and views on individual cases.

On the question of housing, a paper on national housing policy covering a five year period contained proposals for facilitating the construction of 150,000 housing units in urban areas each year and the improvement of 300,000 units in rural areas.

Now in its third year, this reform has reached the stage where areas for improvement have been identified and the necessary restructuring has been implemented.