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  • adjective Being compared with those of a previous year

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Examples

  • The only consumer element in play is the so-called year-to-year growth at GMA trumpeted by the same PR folks who pepper the press releases with superlatives: the most, the largest and the best in years.

    Shelley Ross: How Good Morning America Is "Attracting Its Largest Audience in Four Years" Shelley Ross 2011

  • However, rather than focus on any of those measures, the real bottom line is that our cost of care for the uninsured and charity is basically flat year-to-year, which is the most meaningful way of looking at the true economic impact of caring for the uninsured.

    unknown title 2011

  • More people are volunteering with the Peace Corps than at any point since 1970, the agency said Thursday as it touted a 13 percent year-to-year increase in head count.

    Peace Corps volunteer total hits a 40-year high Ed O'Keefe 2010

  • But Friday's figures and even the forecasts for a modest rise are far from the 1% year-to-year rise seen as the central bank's unofficial target as representing medium- to long-term price stability.

    Japan Consumer Prices Continue Slide Kazuhiro Shimamura 2011

  • More people are volunteering with the Peace Corps than at any point since 1970, the agency said Thursday as it touted a 13 percent year-to-year increase in head count.

    Peace Corps volunteer total hits a 40-year high Ed O'Keefe 2010

  • The year-to-year showing of the Tokyo core CPI still doesn't indicate a shift in the recent trend, a government official said.

    Japan Consumer Prices Continue Slide Kazuhiro Shimamura 2011

  • The rise in poverty rates from 2009 show the biggest year-to-year increase in recorded history.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: The 'War on the Poor' Joel Shatzky 2011

  • Destatis confirmed that, as a whole, the economy grew 0.4% from the third quarter, down from 0.8% in the previous three months, while year-to-year output edged higher to 4% from 3.9% in the third quarter.

    German GDP Grows 0.4% Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

  • The rise in poverty rates from 2009 show the biggest year-to-year increase in recorded history.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: The 'War on the Poor' Joel Shatzky 2011

  • The core CPI for the Tokyo metropolitan area, which often serves as an indicator of future trends nationwide, fell 0.4% year-to-year in February, the government data also showed.

    Japan Consumer Prices Continue Slide Kazuhiro Shimamura 2011

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