Sentences with phrase «ago about a great deal»

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For all the headlines devoted to the event, you'd think this was a really big deal — either a signal that our economy has zoomed past the lingering aftereffects of the Great Recession, or evidence of a bubble about to pop, as CNBC wondered a little while ago.

Since I left print journalism to study theology two decades ago, I've thought a great deal about the limits and possibilities of words - especially when we try to navigate the spiritual territory of human life.

I bring this up because before about two or three seasons ago I never got to see our youngsters, read a great deal.

«Five years ago, Mr. Dan Gerber faced the same situation, and knowing a great deal about vegetables he set out to solve this problem.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Alex, an African grey parrot who died 5 years ago and was known for his ability to use English words, also understood a great deal about numbers.

On the contrary, modern alternative dating apps for older crowd boast of a great deal of features that have also managed to beat full - fledged websites that came into existence about a decade ago.

As per usual — a phrase that critics have to invent at least a dozen variations on when writing about Hong — this creates a sense of fluid causality, which matters a great deal in a movie that's largely about people trying to recapture moments that happened only minutes ago, but are already slipping away.

The boycott may seem like long ago history, in what is a faraway place for many webinar participants, but the lessons of the boycott can actually teach us a great deal about how to lead change today.

A couple of years ago there was a great deal of of buzz surrounding the idea that credit card issuers might be tracking what you were buying — and where you were buying it — as part of making decisions about reducing credit lines and making other decisions.

Unthinkable even 20 years ago when contemporary art was met with incredulity and often hostility, the exhibitions and events tell us a great deal about the transformation the country has undergone, especially since devolution.

Although there have been fluctuations on this measure of worry over the years, the percentage of Americans who worry a great deal about global warming is no higher now than it was 19 years ago.

Major ice sheets didn't develop until about 70,000 years ago, perhaps helped along by a major volcanic eruption in Indonesia that reflected a great deal of sunlight back out into space.

The most recent polling data from Gallup shows the number of Americans who worry «a great deal» about climate change is down slightly on thirty years ago, while the number who worry «not at all» has doubled from 12 per cent to 24 per cent — and now exceeds the number who worry «only a little» or «a fair amount».

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

«I think there's a great deal more interest in talking about things like death, dying, disease, aging than there was five years ago,» says Jan Goddard, founding partner of Goddard Gamage Stephens LLP.

Ten years ago I knew a great deal about farming and the taxation of land and I had ideas.

As recently as one year ago, there wasn't a great deal to say about the budget smartphone market.