In the very early years of this century, before online booking had really caught on, I used to take the morning off (or throw a sickie) to queue up at the old box office in Avenell Road to buy tickets for certain key fixtures, instead of risking the phone. (thearsenalcollective.com)
Subsequent surpluses will be restrained because global economic growth is unlikely to strengthen as it did in the 1990s and the early years of this century. (3dpolicy.ca)
The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients. (firstthings.com)