1.used for talking about situations in which something continues to change or develop every year
1.Prices were 8. 4% higher than a year ago - the eighth consecutive month that there has been a year-on-year rise.
相比一年前，价格要高出8.4%——连续第八个月都是逐年增长。
2.The GDP for the fourth quarter will be announced on the Budget Day. We expect it to return to a year-on-year positive growth.
第四季本地生产总值后日预算案才揭晓，预料将回复按年正增长。
3.Lacking any such restraint is year-on-year grade inflation across the board. And that, like continental drift, is hard to see in action.
但年复一年的分数“膨胀”就没有这样的抑制了，而且就像大陆漂移一样难以察觉。
4.While net profits rose 14 per cent to $9. 4bn on a year-on-year basis, fourth quarter income was one-third that of the previous quarter.
尽管中行全年净利润同比增长14%，至94亿美元，但第四季度的收益却只相当于上一季度的三分之一。
5.However, the year-on-year figures for December show that the pain was more evenly distributed by the end of the year (see chart 2).
但12月份的销售数据显示，与去年同期相比，汽车销量的颓势显得更加均匀（参见表2）。
6.Shaped by the strong viscosity, admission (sticky) (sticky), that is more than a year on year agreement, will be known as the pudding cake.
因糍粑黏性强，取年（黏）年（黏）高，即一年更比一年好之意，将糍粑称作年糕。
7.The decline was Taiwan's biggest on a year-on-year basis and marks its fourth consecutive month of shrinking exports.
这是台湾最大的出口同比降幅，也是出口连续第四个月出现萎缩。
8.BYD is not the only carmaker feeling the pinch: this week Ford of the US said its July sales were down 6 per cent year on year.
比亚迪不是唯一感受到痛苦的汽车制造商：美国的福特（Ford）本周宣布，7月份销量同比下降6%。
9.The American economist Joseph Stiglitz has urged policymakers not to be slaves to year-on-year rises in gross domestic product.
美国经济学家约瑟夫-斯蒂格利茨（JosephStiglitz）则力劝政策制定者，不要变成国内生产总值（GDP）年增长的奴隶。
10.Management fees were 22 per cent higher on a year-on-year basis, but flat in the last six months.
管理费用较上年同期增长22%，但过去6个月来一直持平。