Sentences with phrase «about all of that years ago»

I bought six of them about of year ago at a flea market.

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T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

A year ago, most analysts were thinking about the situation in terms of a «cooperative game,» in which players would strive for a price that maximized their profits.

About 10 years ago, after discovering a defect in its bottles, the company had to recall 25 million bottles of beer.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

An investor who bought Google stock 13 years ago at its IPO price of $ 85 would now own a piece of the company worth about 22 times their original investment.

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

«There's lots of language in the shareholder letter about things taking time, and that's been something of a theme since Dorsey took over a year ago,» said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

FOURTEEN years ago, Karratha locals Sean and Lisa Clarke had ambitions to establish a vehicle hire business with a fleet of about 50 vehicles.

The Essential Drucker: He's equally enthusiastic about this one, saying «absolutely love Drucker — much of what he wrote 50 years ago is more relevant than anything you read today.»

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

The EU competition enforcer estimated a tax bill of about 400 million euros a year ago, two people familiar with the matter had told Reuters at the time.

Thurston: I was at Intel about seven years ago and part of a new business that Intel killed for no apparent reason.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

When I started this venture a bit over a year ago, I knew nothing about building websites or the importance of social media.

Two years ago Musk showed a photo of BFR's fuel tank, capable of holding «1200 tons of liquid oxygen,» as a part of SpaceX's early announcements about the rocket.

The idea for 7 Cups of Tea came to him two years ago, after he downloaded with her about a stressful business trip.

The suspects were of Chechen descent, and emigrated to the U.S. about 10 years ago from Russia's turbulent Caucusus region.

«We had opened them about 12 years ago, at a time when the penetration of smartphones was very low, so this was a great growth opportunity.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

On the other hand, increasing the minimum to that amount two years ago might have cost the economy about 500,000 jobs, or 0.3 percent of the workforce, by 2016, the CBO found.

Let me tell you about Craig Howe, a young musician I know who started the Williamsburg School of Music in New York City's borough of Brooklyn about four years ago.

We started seeing ransomware popping up about four years ago in the corporate world, and if you look at the percentages of people who have paid, close to 50 % of them have been attacked again.

«It's hard to understand why the BOJ is still cautious about adopting a price - stability target,» Kuroda wrote, eight years ago, before the central bank was strong - armed this year into adopting a binding inflation target of 2 percent.

Since starting my podcast a little over a year ago, I've had the pleasure of interviewing some pretty brilliant people about business, money and the idea of success.

Having had the sublime pleasure of riding in a robot car a few years ago (and writing about it again recently), it was with great interest that I read the cover story in the latest issue of Wired.

About eight years ago, I made a difficult decision: to end my career of public speaking.

A spokesperson for the company told Fortune that the idea began organically at a single location about four years ago, and it has since expanded to about 100 of the chain's nearly 2,000 Chick - fil - A restaurants.

«About two years ago we realized it was possible to create this part of the future right now.»

Nonetheless, Fossil shares are back to where they were about a year ago at $ 15.33 after precipitous drops in the last 12 months, but just a fraction of their $ 131.98 all - time highs only six years ago.

About five years ago, overwhelmed by the logistics of planning at least two trips per month, he made the switch from organizing his own travel to using an agency.

AB InBev said it began to rethink its role in the U.S. beer industry about five years ago, starting with its purchase of Chicago - based Goose Island.

And as the number of telecommuters increases (studies suggest about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.

Samumed was founded in 2008 and came out of stealth mode about two years ago when it started presenting some of its data.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

And here's the kicker about all that insurance money — it's generated by millions of agents, with lots of paper, in processes that look much the same way they did 30 years ago.

The phenomenon of Brooklynization has officially reached the point where the cool kids who couldn't shut up about it 10 years ago now dismiss it as fad.

Six years ago, Cantu retired to Bozeman, Mont., where he stayed retired for all of about three months.

Since Google created Area 120 roughly two years ago, it has launched a handful of apps, but Enthoven knew she wouldn't learn as much about recruiting or scaling if she stayed within the tech giant.

«Several years ago I realized that when I got up in the morning, I would immediately start getting anxious about the myriad of things that awaited me that day.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

A Piece of the Action My wife and I started a marketing - communications business about five years ago.

Sergeant Alex Sobolewski of the West Midlands Police, who is based at Brierley Hill about 130 miles (210 km) northwest of London, said a large part of his work now concerns people trafficking, a crime barely discussed five years ago.

SHERYL - LEE Moroni has no regrets about her decision 21 years ago to step away from her career as a stenographer and move into the world of adult dance.

This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.

Mt. Gox's bankruptcy trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, disclosed on Wednesday in Tokyo that he sold about $ 400 million of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash since late September, part of the hoard left behind when the exchange collapsed four years ago.