Sentences with phrase «ago at the height»

Even when sea levels were at their lowest, about 22,000 years ago at the height of the last ice age, the islands were likely out of the deer's swimming range.

The lowest gains realized were for those who purchased their homes 8 to 9 years ago at the height of the previous housing boom.

The article was based on my family's experience buying our current home over two years ago at the height of the housing boom.

Nearly 30 years ago at the height of the AIDS crisis, London - based Isaac Julien shot «Looking for Langston» (1989/2017) in monochrome.

About four years ago at the height of the single - family housing and condominium boom, 25 % to 30 % of renters moving out of apartments were buying homes, says Anderson.

Not exact matches

At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.

Shares traded at record lows this week, a fraction of their height from just two years ago when the microblogging company went public.

Consider this: At its height nearly a decade ago, Blackberry was a smartphone powerhouse.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund today sounded the alarm on excessive global borrowing, warning that with a total of $ 164 trillion owed, the world's public and private sectors are deeper in debt than at the height of the financial crisis a decade ago.

After having dipped in the second half of last year, home prices in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia have been recovering, are up from levels one year ago, and are now at new heights or trending toward them (Greater Vancouver: 11.4 % y - o - y and Fraser Valley: 18 % y - o - y).

Yes it was written by men 2000 years and above ago in a different culture but that doesn't mean that it supports patriarchal oppression any more than a book written by Germain Greer at the height of the feminist movement's popularity is sexist and supports matriarchal oppression.

A few weeks ago, you are informed, he was robbed at the height of the rush hour right there, a knife to his white throat from behind, while another black robber went through his pockets deftly.

I picked up a bag of fantastic Pink Lady apples a few weeks ago, when my longing for rhubarb and spring was at its height and the perfect tartness of these apples helped, eaten out of hand and as the star of these bars from Dorie's Cookies.

I personally believe that Wenger didn't push to have the contracts of Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsey and Ox renewed earlier because he was going to use it as leverage when renegotiating his own deal... so far that tactic has backfired as we know little more about this squad moving forward than we did in May and Wenger clearly misjudged just how important his staying would be to both Sanchez and Ox... I like Lacazette, but I liked him a lot more 2 years ago at 20 million less... Sead might come good but once again he wasn't a necessity buy, except that he was a free transfer and was signed early... another «wag the dog» tactic employed by the powers that be... as for the rest of the roster, very little has changed, except that it's way too big and lacks the cutting edge to take this club to new heights.

When Alex Iwobi burst onto the scene a couple of seasons ago, all who watched the youngster ply his trade could see that he had the potential to reach great heights at Arsenal.

Anyway just popped in to remind everyone that we havnt threatened to win a trophy in 5 + years and also remind you that Wenger promised changes at the height of our underachieving and again after our poor finish to the season only 3 mths ago.....

It far outstripped the 1,168,738 for the mop - haired Tory candidate at the height of his popularity eight years ago.

Arguably it is the state party that is pandering; opposition to the idea of licenses for the undocumented hasn't abated much since a decade ago, when Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed it at the height of his popularity — and was promptly pilloried.

Iraq is experiencing violence at levels similar to the height of its sectarian civil war more than five years ago, Afghanistan remains riddled with violence, and Libya resembles anything but a stable, secure and functioning state.

Take Back Parliament launched dramatically a few weeks ago, at the height of the coalition negotiations, when several thousand people chanting «fair votes now» and «we want to speak to Nick» gathered outside the LGA building where Nick Clegg was meeting and called the Liberal Democrat leader out to demand he does not abandon the party's historic commitment to PR.

«Around 20,000 years ago, at the height of the ice age, the environment became very, very cold and dry, and we see a major drop - off in the diversity of forbs,» says Willerslev.

This exposed tall ice «cliffs» at their margin with an unstable height, and resulted in rapid retreat of the glaciers from marine ice cliff instability between 12,000 and 11,000 years ago.

«Competition was more notable a couple of years ago, at the height of the dot - com boom, when the city was snapping [up] anyone with knowledge of IT,» says Sim.

Mark Lehner, an Egyptologist from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in Illinois has created a unique image of what the Sphinx probably looked like at the height of its splendour some 3400 years ago.

The thrust of the genetic and archaeological evidence is that the ancestors of Native Americans walked or paddled from Siberia between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age.

Doctors believe he is one of a small but growing number of Vietnamese children who are third - generation victims of the toxic pesticides — in particular Agent Orange — that were sprayed over the country by the US Air Force at the height of the Vietnam War 30 years ago.

The researchers looked at the pattern of extinctions for 177 species of mammals weighing 10 kilograms or more between 132,000 years ago (the height of the next - to - last ice age to strike the Northern Hemisphere) and 1000 years ago (a time at which the ecological effects of human exploration and expansion became unquestionable).

So, six months ago, at the height of summer, Gorham, Barwick and colleagues found themselves jack - hammering away at a 10 - tonne block of ice at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Palo Alto, California.

The original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north — perhaps for thousands of years — before spreading in two distinct populations throughout North and South America, according to a new genomic analysis.

There is something curious about the sedimentary rocks laid down around the world 250 million years ago, at the height of Earth's greatest extinction: they are often riddled with filaments, and no one is sure what they are.

Dormant for thousands of years, it once featured a large glacier on its massive peak at the height of the last ice age about 21,000 years ago.

Years ago when personal photographs on cakes were at the height of their popularity I had a printer that was used only for edible images.

«I have only worn flats since having my son two years ago, the thought of wearing heels just for one day was a «no no» luckily at 5ft 10 I have height on my side so flats it was.

The mighty Cumberbatch joins the MCU in a movie, having opened a few days ago in the UK, that elevates the stakes to multiverse - spanning, mystical heights whilst simultaneously presenting comic book storytelling at it most talky.

But life for this age group is not what it was 36 years ago when boys would pass time at a quarry and jump in from some height.

About ten years ago, at the height of optimism about the benefits of new ICTs, we discussed a similar motion and there was little support for the view that the Internet and social media might have some downsides.

At my height 6 months ago I was selling about 3 per day.

A couple of months ago at the «height» of the credit crisis bonds were extremely attractive.

Here is how it works: years ago, when home values were at their height, home owners used the equity in their home (s) to borrow against.

Once circular, it was known as Strongili, «the Round One», but some 3,600 years ago, at the height of the ancient Minoan civilization, a mighty volcanic eruption caused the centre of Strongili to sink, leaving a water - filled crater — Santorini's famous caldera.

Tunga always had a bit of Amazonian shaman to him, and losing him to cancer two weeks ago, at the height of his artistic powers, is a veritable tragedy.

That may well be so, but one has to remember that the painting concerned was produced in 1985, more than thirty years ago, at the very height of Basquiat's success in the New York art world, then much closer to being globally dominant than it is now.

The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the «Ice Age,» was at its height approximately 20,000 years ago.

The last time heat trapping gasses were seen at such high concentrations was at the height of the Pliocene warming 3 - 5 million years ago.

As recently as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most recent major glaciation, CO2 dipped to its lowest level in recorded history at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt plant growth.

In a time period 21,000 years ago called the Last Glacial Maximum, at the height of the last Ice Age, the Southwest was wetter than is seen now — a lot wetter — while the Northwest was much drier, the researchers report.

Whereas at the market's height a few years ago a developer might have rigidly insisted on retaining such a clause — safe in the knowledge that another buyer who would accept it was likely to be waiting in the wings — the subtle shift of power to buyers since then means that there is nothing to be lost from a challenge and, in an environment where developers are under increasing public pressure to grant fair leases and to do away with RPI, everything to be won.

In Moas's view, the 800 cryptocurrencies that are now trading are analogous to the 800 stocks that were available on the Nasdaq at the height of the dot - com bubble nearly 20 years ago.

Amazon also gets to benefit from falling costs, since the Echo came out a couple years ago, whereas Apple is now starting at the height of the HomePod's cost curve as a new product.

My dad and I had tried our hand at short sales at the height of the crash a few years ago, and came away with exactly ZERO deals closed after a full year of hard work.