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he left here long ago
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The biggest decline was in Florida's Cape Coral-Fort Myers region, where the median home sale price declined 9% to $341,250 in the first quarter compared with the year-ago period.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 May 2026
Sales for engineering , which Linde reports as an operating segment alongside the regional results, fell 8% versus the year-ago period, missing expectations.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 1 May 2026
Results in China lagged the year-ago period, of course, but North America grew 75% and the rest of the world excluding China was up 60%.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, adjusted earnings-per-share rose to 17 cents, up from the per-share loss of 13 cents in the same year-ago period.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 May 2026
Sales for engineering , which Linde reports as an operating segment alongside the regional results, fell 8% versus the year-ago period, missing expectations.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 1 May 2026
Results in China lagged the year-ago period, of course, but North America grew 75% and the rest of the world excluding China was up 60%.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, adjusted earnings-per-share rose to 17 cents, up from the per-share loss of 13 cents in the same year-ago period.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ago. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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ago
adjective or adverb
: earlier than the present time
many years ago
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