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.