It also says preliminary reports from two weeks in August show sharp improvements.

The 1993 annual inflation rate was around 1,000%, a sharp improvement over 1992, but still very high.

With this, the state's literacy rate has had a sharp improvement in the recent past.

But even that is a sharp improvement over a 1999 model similarly equipped.

She has 8 to 10 appearances scheduled this year, a sharp improvement over 2003.

That is a sharp improvement from 1993, when about 10,000 companies faced a gap of some $71 billion.

The results represented a sharp improvement from its $2.6 billion loss in the 1987 second quarter.

Indeed, some computer makers are expected to show sharp improvement.

The holiday season was a sharp improvement from the rest of the quarter.

But that was a sharp improvement over the $20 million loss reported the year before.