Sentences with phrase «around a decade back»

Many private life insurance companies that started operations around a decade back are turning profitable.

Around a decade back, smartphones did not exist, laptops were heavier, and PCs were bulky.

Not exact matches

In the decade he's been at the company, Violi has seen the Canadian dollar go from around 75 cents to over a dollar and back to its current perch around 84 cents.

Busby says this idea of formal integration has been around for decades, but the considerable bureaucratic and planning inertia inherent in making such systemic change has until now put implementation on the back burner.

After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.

While there has been a modest recovery in export volumes from the trough reached in mid 2003, this has so far only lifted exports back to around their level at the start of the decade.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Because for the first in around a decade, Wenger changed the formation, and for the first time ever, Wenger went for three at the back.

His transfer value is around $ 18M and the young lad would solidify the left back position @ AFC for the next decade.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Joseph spent nearly a decade around the league as a defensive backs coach before landing his first defensive coordinator job with the Dolphins this year.

He built up his resume by working as a defensive backs coach around the league for a decade before landing his first defensive coordinator position with the Dolphins in 2015.

Zines were first created decades ago, but the trend is coming back around.

In our babywearing school we teach only safe babywearing backed up by decades of research from all around the world.

As Nicole Gelinas notes at length on the preceding page, there's plenty of blame to go around on the subways, going back decades.

NASA and ESA currently envision a joint mission to bring back the Martian goods around the middle of the next decade.

The natural next step would be to bring samples back to Earth but with its current budget, NASA probably won't get around to that for at least a decade.

In December leaders from around the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to agree on cutting back greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come.

Concern that aircraft crossing this boundary destroy ozone dates back more than two decades to the construction of the first Concordes, which cruise at around 16.5 kilometres (55 000 feet).

My health journey stems back to an eating disorder (anorexia) I had when I was 13 years old, which continued into a decade of disordered eating that finally came to an end around the time I finished university.

Circuit training — also referred to as metabolic - resistance training, cardio - strength training, and my, personal fave, lifting weights faster — has been around for decades and has a slew of scientific research to back it up.

The last time I was home two years ago I wanted nothing to do with these sunglasses, vintage T - shirts, Chanel costume jewelry, crystal mesh crop tops from Wet Seal in the 90's etc... The lesson I learned here, was it really does take a decade or more for things to come back around.

One of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema, it's funny to think that Anderson was endorsed by Martin Scorsese way back in the day when the «Mean Streets» director co-signed onto his then little - cared - for debut «Bottle Rocket» several years before Anderson would blow up into a cultural phenomenon (that wouldn't be until around «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou»).

Bonus Materials: If Intolerable Cruelty doesn't feel quite like a typical Coen concoction, theres a reason — it was written nearly a decade ago for another director before bouncing around Hollywood and landing back in the laps of the reluctant brothers, who initially deemed the project too commercial for their tastes.

«A decade after we took a risk in backing a film centered around a slide show presentation and one human's quest to awaken global consciousness about our changing planet, we are proud to bring global audiences a promising update: that a future powered by clean, safe, renewable, inexpensive, non-polluting energy is no longer a dream but a very attainable reality,» Participant Media Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll said in the statement.

First up, Mondo has a vinyl release of Michael Giacchino «s score for Speed Racer, a film that everyone slept on in 2009 but have now come back around to under a decade later.

Watching the two aging actors step back into the ring decades later is not only embarrassing for them, but the audience as well, particularly when the movie is built around a bunch of unfunny old geezer jokes and lame callbacks to their respective boxing characters.

With E3 2018 just around the corner, we look back at world's biggest gaming convention, and see where it's come over the last two decades.

The technology that has been around for a couple of decades is finally living up to the hype it created back in the nineties.

Consider an education program so effective that its impact can be measured 19 years later, so well - studied that it can be backed up with decades of scientific evidence on children's improved skills in math and reading, and so impressive to policymakers that it continues to be championed around the country 40 years after its launch.

For years, most in education circles have been acutely aware of a «boy crisis» in education — though around the world, girls are less likely to enter school, boys are significantly more likely to be held back, suspended, fail or drop out than their female counterparts and are more likely to be labeled as special needs — a truth that has remained for decades.

Hyundai Creta Long Term Review The Hyundai Creta is an SUV which meets most urban users» requirements, it excels in the city Hyundai seems to have understood the SUV craze very well, they had launched the Tucson in India around a decade ago and have brought back that vehicle to India while their flagship vehicle... Read More

The Frontier dates back to 2004, and though it received minor updates in 2009, it's still essentially the same old pickup that's been around for nearly a decade and a half.

It was originally published around 2001 and the author's website says «Back in print in the States after nearly a decade!»

SRI funds have been around for decades — the first started back in 70s — and were primarily large - cap U.S. growth portfolios.

According to the HSUS report,» Smith's Kennel has a history of repeat USDA violations stretching back more than a decade, including citations for unsanitary conditions; dogs exposed to below - freezing temperatures or excessive heat without adequate shelter from the weather; dogs without enough cage space to turn and move around freely; pest and rodent infestations; injured and bleeding dogs, dogs with loose, bloody stools who had not been treated by a vet, and much more.»

More family travel for less money Since my days of flying back and forth between graduate school in New York and seeing friends and family in Texas, to learning how to keep my two young girls connected to their family members spread around the country, I've spent much of the past decade learning the secrets of leveraging rewards earning credit cards, points promotions, airline award charts, travel sales, and otherwise very mundane everyday life tasks and expenses to enable our family to literally travel around the world, sometimes in suites and in first class, for a very greatly reduced cost.

So I had stopped playing Gears long enough to slap in Oblivion, and after stumbling around in the dark for what felt like an ice - age followed by a decade, I decided that enough was enough and I switched back to Gears of War.

Procedural generation has been around in video games for decades — 1984's Elite used it to create its own (very primitive) galaxy to explore, and ancient UNIX dungeon crawler Rogue used it back in 1980 (in the process spawning an entire genre of games with unique, procedurally generated levels).

So he would go back and would add and retouch and tinker around over several years - sometimes over the course of a decade or two.

And his last work turned out to be a strange and soulful white whale he spent a decade building — a re-creation of a curio of early aviation, a 40 - foot - long white zeppelin that floats for 15 minutes around a fixed invisible point and then comes back earth.

Croës offers her expertise on ancient Chinese treasures to collectors and museums around the world and her passion goes back many decades.

Prince has been a collector of Dahn's work for two decades, and it is from this perspective and through the lens of personal history that he has curated the exhibition 4th Time Around / (My Back Pages), a showcase of work by Walter Dahn opening at Venus Over Manhattan gallery on September 12, 2013.

He was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and around 2010, after a decade - long stint in New York, he moved back there.

With a record of engagement in this world going back over two decades, Ledochowski gives dignity to artistic practices of the people of the Cape Flats through sensitive photographs that demonstrate the rich culture and varied artistic responses of residents to the world and life around them.

Moving them all back to purpose made passive solar houses in little idyllic clusters, with farms around, is going to take come convincing people, and would take decades to centuries.

Japanese researcher predicts cooler climate in Northern Hemisphere from 2015 — «A Japanese scientist who analyzed ocean temperatures stretching back more than five decades has predicted that the climate in the Northern Hemisphere may enter a cooling period around 2015.

Scientists have for decades posited that Earth's orbit around the sun goes from nearly circular to about 5 percent elliptical, and back again every 405,000 years.

«A Japanese scientist who analyzed ocean temperatures stretching back more than five decades has predicted that the climate in the Northern Hemisphere may enter a cooling period around 2015.