From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!zrm Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: "while" vs. "compared with" Article-I.D.: mitccc.261 Posted: Sat Jan 15 17:35:33 1983 Received: Tue Jan 18 03:57:07 1983 References: ihuxr.284 Most business publications I've seem use the following contruct: Production this year is 17,500, up from 13,000 last year. or ...17,500, up 4,500 from last year's total. I guess comparison words don't work too well when dealing with the same statistic at two different times.