Sentences with phrase «as a couple of years ago»

Even as recently as a couple of years ago, if you would have told me that sweet potatoes and black beans were a great combo, I probably would have given you the side eye.

As recently as a couple of years ago, parting ways in a friendship felt like an intolerable failure to me.

As recently as a couple of years ago, I thought that I would continue to cover the gray for at least another 5 to 10 years.

In the old days (and by «old days» I mean as recently as a couple of years ago), moving at the speed of Big Publishing America, taking months (or years) to make updates, never really knowing what worked to sell books, and being completely resistant to starting over with a new approach.

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But the shale oil revolution began well over 5 years ago, and we all had a pretty good idea as early as a couple of years ago what the impact was going to be.

As recently as a couple of years ago, a lot of people didn't even know that this sort of thing existed.

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I received the kit as part of a gift bag at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference a couple years ago.

A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.

It started as a modest co-working space in a former bank branch just a couple of years ago to a large, well - managed space and business incubator.

Chappelle returned to a relatively steady stand - up comedy schedule a couple of years ago, and he spent the weekend performing six shows (two a night) as part of Austin City Limits Live.

Until a couple of years ago, negative rates were largely seen as an academic experiment, likely to be seen in textbooks and economic research papers, but never actually in the real world.

«We have seen security go from, again what was a couple years ago 20 %, 25 % to consistently 40 % of the business,» Conte said at the time, as recorded in a transcript of the call on the finance site Seeking Alpha.

«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.

High - end retailer Nordstrom ended the summer saying it planned 20 percent fewer clearance days this year than a couple of years ago, with another 25 percent reduction next year, as it focused on service and «differentiated» products.

As I've written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning.

I bought two water stocks a couple of years ago, AWK and AWR, as I figured they were be difficulty disrupting the water market

Even though they are not exporting as much oil as they were a couple of years ago, their oil revenues are rapidly recovering to the point they can get along with smaller exports.

This outlook appears to be supported by expectations of reasonably firm levels of output and profitability, although these are not as buoyant as they were a couple of years ago.

As Draghi pledged that a decision on policy changes will be announced next month, Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management comments: «In many ways, the ECB can afford to leave investors «hanging», a situation that would not have been palatable a couple of years ago and an indication of the significant improvement in the fundamental backdrop.

I started this show as background noise a few years ago, not expecting much, and here we are 4 season in, and it's still one of my favorite shows, while I don't believe this season is as good as season 2 or maybe 3 as a whole, it has its high points, a couple of things fall a little flat, but no single episode failed in my opinion.

Well, a couple years ago, I was given as a joke (at Princeton, I think) an extra-extra-large tee - shirt, one of those pieces of clothing only a linebacker could wear with comfort.

Almost as irrational as someone claiming a person that died a couple of thousand years ago is gonna come back cause he wants to get laid... lol..

Years ago, as I spoke farewells to those who had attended the last session of a particular inquirers class — the very meeting in which I sought to «close the deal» of bringing new members on board — I noticed that two young couples stayed behind, talking intently with each other.

This is the same as someone a couple of hundred years ago saying that because all Christian religions had thus far been «young earth» in nature that Christianity and young - earthism are the same thing.

Occasionally, however, I recall uneasily a colleague's suggestion at a faculty meeting a couple of years ago: «I would like us to consider whether we should continue to designate students» degrees as cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude.

As president of our local photography club, and having survived a split a couple years ago... that's right, a split.

#ImChristianBut trended on Twitter a couple years ago, in the wake of a BuzzFeed video of young Christians butting against what they saw as negative stereotypes of Christians.

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

I made this a couple of weeks ago and my 13 year old picky eater loved it as well as my husband.

A few years ago Dan and I decided to try a couple of takeaway pot style Thai meals, as neither of us had ever had anything Thai before.

I had attempted Blondies once before (a couple of years ago) but they were nowhere near as scrummy as these and I had gone back to the dark side (brownies)-- however, these have converted me!

We assembled them from Nancy Silverton's graham crackers from the La Brea Bakery cookbook, as featured on 101 Cookbooks, [which were, incidentally the most accurately - flavored homemade graham crackers I've baked, much closer that the ones I'd attempted a couple years ago from Retro Desserts] and Thomas Keller's marshmallows, as featured on Cooking for Engineers, and packed them up with skewers for toasting and giant bars of Hershey's milk chocolate (exactly what we used in summer camp).

This is life with a one year old... as a full - time working mom... who as of a couple of weeks ago was still pumping five times a day.

I have used coconut oil for about a year now as an all over body moisturizer when I get out of the shower, and started using it a couple of weeks ago on my face after my shower and at night before bed.

My kids love this Mexican noodle soup as well, in fact when my daughter was sick a couple years ago I brought her a pot of this soup and she was over the moon.

KFC, of course, is the same company that a couple years ago in Europe introduced a tray liner with the ability to charge your cell phone as you ate.

I was no stranger to these brownies as they had featured in the blackcurrant round - up of We Should Cocoa a couple of years ago.

I read about za'atar a couple of years ago, and as I had recently moved to a big - city neighborhood with a large middle - eastern population, I went to one of our local grocery stores and asked for it by name.

Reese's cups were my favorite Halloween candy as a kid and they were what my Chief Culinary Consultant bought me to celebrate liberation from a quarter - life - peanut - allergy - crisis a couple of years ago.

I personally believe that low carb stopped working as well for me a couple of years ago because I wasn't paying attention and ensuring that I was getting plenty of fiber and vitamins from raw veggies.

as for my favorite birthday memory: a couple years ago my extended family rented a house in a remote part of Maine.

-LSB-...] used an old Cranberry Orange Smoothie recipe that I posted a couple of years ago as my foundation.

But then, a couple of years ago, my husband received a box of really good, expensive chocolates as a present, a box including a few marzipan filled chocolates.

A couple of years ago, when I ordered my first ever bag of Kelp Noodles online, I found myself completely clueless as to what to do with them.

A couple of years ago I decided to become vegan, however being a wheat free vegan is tough and food group restrictions, as you discuss, can make eating an emotional rollercoaster.

A couple years ago, I developed what I'll describe as a dried cherry habit — I stir them into oatmeal or yogurt in the morning, add them to salads for lunch, or I'll mix some with toasted pecans to serve the purpose of a lazy woman's granola for all car trips or flights.

I gave almond butter a try a couple of years ago but it just wasn't cutting it for me; it didn't taste as good as peanut butter.

Even the fact that we have finished second by only goal difference in the last two seasons as well as losing to Bayern Munich on away goals a couple of years ago suggested that Arsenal just could not get a break.

Steve Bruce was a great player at Manchester United and had some success as a manager as well, most notably when his Hull City side gave Arsenal a big fright in the FA Cup Final a couple of years ago.