Sentences with phrase «about a decade ago»

About a decade ago I studied a Fortune 500 company that had set up an employee assistance program.

About a decade ago, the sea change in availability of medals dawned on Greensfelder in Norway: Russians were there with tons of money buying, not selling.

Starting about a decade ago, social - networking platforms for business — most notably on LinkedIn — introduced much needed transparency to beleaguered buyers, allowing for third - party comments and reviews.

About a decade ago, she felt the freedom to explore a new line of business for Kimley - Horn.

About a decade ago, he invested millions of his own money into co-founding Arista Networks, a computer networking company.

Starting about a decade ago, the Chinese, who now control 90 % of the photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing market, built up huge overcapacity that has been driving down prices.

It was one of those people who convinced her to apply for the job of executive director of Catalyst Canada about a decade ago.

It's now the largest supplier to the North American screen print industry, boosting its wholesale t - shirt market share from 10 % about a decade ago to nearly 50 % today.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

About a decade ago, two clients of Kevin Meehan, CFP and regional president, Chicago, at Wealth Enhancement Group, presented themselves as a responsible couple in their 30s trying to build their wealth.

Trained in mechanical engineering that's about heat transfer and combustion, Princevac began studying fires in the wild about a decade ago.

Since Facebook entered Africa about a decade ago, it has become the region's dominant tech platform.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

About a decade ago China was a minor player in solar panel manufacturing, but today it's a global powerhouse and creates more than two - thirds of the world's panels.

Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas.

In the online world, «inbound marketing» is a term that was popularized about a decade ago by HubSpot cofounders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah.

Common Cause filed a similar complaint about a $ 150,000 payment made shortly before the election by American Media Inc., owner of The National Enquirer, to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate who has said she had an affair with a married Mr. Trump about a decade ago.

Wanda started building cinemas about a decade ago in a foray into a culture industry that Wang said has «no ceiling» on brand influence and profitability.

Since Amazon decided about a decade ago to stay in downtown Seattle, the company said, it has invested over $ 4 billion in the construction and development of offices in the city, though it won't disclose the budget for the spheres.

When we moved to Toronto from Washington, D.C. about a decade ago, my wife and I were shocked by the cost of housing.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

The global financial crisis which occurred about a decade ago is credited with inspiring the invention of Bitcoin (BTC).

About a decade ago, Wisconsin mortgage rates were higher than the national average — sometimes significantly.

The company began to recover about a decade ago under Richard Baker, a veteran real estate investor.

At the same time, I did hear a pastor prophesy about a decade ago for churches to start building because we were heading for this time where all our culture has put their collective faith into will fail to fulfil them and they will come banging upon the doors of churches that are alive and vibrant.

There are miserable thirty and fortysomethings in jobs they stopped caring about a decade ago — and it shows all over their work.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

Obviously, whoever is in charge of marketing in the Holy See should have been sacked about a decade ago.

Hartley felt compelled to speak out against the trafficking to some of the highest - ranking officials in the country and ended up being permanently expelled from the country about a decade ago.

About a decade ago, I heard Wheaton College's Jerry Root, a noted Lewis scholar, describe the Chronicles of Narnia author's views on animals as a sentimental failing in his thought.

«We innovated the self - serve yogurt concept about a decade ago,» Lyman says.

, it was something I got pulled into trying about a decade ago.

In fact, when evidence of overfishing of Chilean sea bass became evident about a decade ago, Albion Fisheries voluntarily suspended selling the popular item.

«About a decade ago, we saw the roll out of digital cinema and we have re-outfitted all of our theaters with it,» League continues.

I remember about a decade ago when my cousin's then - chef boyfriend (now - husband) showed up to Thanksgiving with a tray of twice - baked sweet potatoes.

I discovered Better Than Bouillon stock base about a decade ago and it's one of my absolutely favourite products.

Once again, we find ourselves reading about the same story we were reading about a decade ago.

The Fitzgerald Field House used to be where the Pitt men's and women's basketball teams played (and where Jerome Lane pulled his infamous Darryl Dawkins - style backboard shattering dunk in 1988 against Providence), but about a decade ago the hoopsters moved down the street to the $ 120 million Petersen Events Center.

The man lost radio contact with planet earth about a decade ago and has been drifting aimlessly through an 8 million quid hazy cosmic jive of his glory years with a rag tag collection of space junkies in tow believing that his fossilized form is some kind of relic from an alien master footballing race which he will eventually call back to north london in a kind of soccer inspired rapture in which Sam and Johnny and Krish and Pat and Mr Admin will finally see all their bizarro football predictions come to fruition..

About a decade ago, he filed a series of lawsuits on behalf of the ASA and certain bat manufacturers against specific «bat doctors.»

It's impossible to make a perfect facsimile of Augusta National, but the Houston Open put a strategy in place about a decade ago that they'd try to add elements of what the players will face next week.

About a decade ago, he founded JOFF, an educational charity committed to keeping wholesome home cooking alive.

I say «limited experience» because until about a decade ago most adoptions were closed with little to no information about birth families for individuals who were adopted and vice versa.

This crochet pattern was made about a decade ago and it's still stylish.

Started just about a decade ago, they are now a global name.

Sales of front - load washers picked up steam about a decade ago, and the best in Consumer Reports» tests deliver excellent cleaning with unmatched gentleness, as well as superb water and energy efficiency.

But since the World Health Organization published a report about a decade ago saying that babies should be exclusively breastfed until 6 months, countries like the UK and US have recommended parents hold off until then.

He then recalled his first interaction with Pichardo, about a decade ago on a call dealing with a distressed woman with three children in an apartment building.

As Mineola mayor, Martins was at the forefront of the opposition to the third track when it was initially proposed about a decade ago.

The move could also bolster Cohen's effort to delay a suit brought in Los Angeles by porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump about a decade ago.