Sentences with phrase «as a decade ago»

Kevin Grierson, a partner and intellectual property co-chair at Culhane Meadows, in Washington, D.C., says that, even as recently as a decade ago, many IP infringements would have slipped under the radar.

That idea might have been considered «science fiction» as recently as a decade ago, Felten said, but now Waymo is testing its driverless ride - hailing service on public roads in Arizona.

At 32, he is as fresh - faced and casually dressed as a decade ago, yet today the Facebook CEO is a celebrity wherever he goes.

Wealthy Chinese are snapping up gold, Rolls - Royces and yachts, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci faster than ever before, with increases registering not in baby steps, as a decade ago, but in giant leaps — 20, 50, even 80 percent, year on year.

Even as recently as a decade ago (is a decade ago «recent?»

OK, he may not be the same Wenger as a decade ago but thinking players will not play for Wenger is borderline stupid.

Until as recently as a decade ago, the mostly lab - based scientists who studied aging assumed that senescence wasn't visible in nature.

The city of Phoenix today uses about the same amount of water as a decade ago because of per capita reductions.

Today about 5.7 million tonnes of rice being are produced every year — three times as much as a decade ago.

Today, they serve more than three million students nationwide — nearly three times as many students as a decade ago.

About the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual - arts instruction are offered as a decade ago — a proportion that accounts for only about half the nation's schoolchildren at that age.

As recently as a decade ago, the U.S. could take some comfort from the fact that, while our test scores may have been so - so, our graduation, college - matriculation, and college - completion rates were the world's highest.

Anything and everything that goes wrong will be blamed on the Common Core, just as a decade ago every education misfire was blamed on No Child Left Behind.

At the same time, the same proportion of those surveyed as a decade ago said they believed violence exists within families, according to the study, whose findings were presented this month at a Chicago conference sponsored by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.

With those caveats behind me I have found I read at least three times the books now as a decade ago.

The FBI was already using a cellphone microphone to eavesdrop on organized crime as long as a decade ago.

As recently as a decade ago, self - publishing was much more labor intensive and costly than it is today.

What makes the growth of the ETF space even more remarkable is that as recent as a decade ago there were fewer than 50 ETFs available in Canada with less than US$ 20 billion in assets.

As recently as a decade ago, people were able to get 6 figure home loans WITHOUT even needing to prove their income or assets.

Still, my back - to - front route to her work says much about the peripheral status of her chosen medium — clay — in contemporary art as recently as a decade ago.

As early as a decade ago, Oehlen set up a studio in a tower of the city walls of Segovia, where he began to work on computer generated images.

As long as a decade ago, Trecartin's compellingly cacophonous videos were exploring the internet as a potential space for narcissism, mutable identity, fantasy and speed — turning them all up to a frenzied pitch — whilst Cornell was previously director of Rhizome, the New Museum - affiliated art organization devoted to new media and technology.

They also noted that glaciers are now melting at least twice as fast as a decade ago.

Granted, as recently as a decade ago, it was still difficult to obtain green fixtures such as efficient lights or low - flow toilets.

As little as a decade ago, you could turn a corner in the Square Mile and were always promised a glimpse of a Restoration spire amid the modern office blocks.

As little as a decade ago all forces affecting the ability of law firms to extract superior profits for their work were benign, i.e. it was a sellers» market.

Gain - sharing clauses started appearing in outsourcing contracts at least as early as a decade ago.

As early as a decade ago, this was the only way to go about getting coverage.

Not exact matches

As a result, most of today's sought - after professions didn't exist just a decade ago!

A decade ago TransCanada Pipelines, as it was then known, was a pure - play natural gas shipper from producing areas in Western Canada to markets in Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Today, as Steeped Tea settles in to its position as «the» name in direct sales of loose - leaf, it bears a pretty close resemblance to the vision Jahshan had nearly a decade ago.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

A decade ago, Reebok acquired the original Canada Cycle & Motor Company (CCM), as well as hockey brands JOFA and Koho, for US$ 329 million.

More than 61,000 people attended Burning Man in 2013, which just a decade ago drew half as many people.Business Insider / Aly Weisman

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.

When Tom Davidson served as a state legislator for a small district in southern Maine two decades ago, he became intimately familiar with the byzantine, bureaucratic, and often, frankly, subpar sausage - making that goes into bankrolling education at a local level.

An oddity outside China's borders less than a decade ago, the renminbi (which translates as «the People's currency») is quickly becoming one of the world's most commonly used forms of payment.

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

The differences we uncovered between the»80s revolutionaries and today's company builders were as startling to our minds as a first taste of Ben & Jerry's «Orgasmic Flavors» of ice cream was to our palates more than two decades ago.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

Securitization has generally worked as advertised, although mortgage - backed securities and related derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis almost a decade ago.

Now junior mining firms want in on the material — first created in a lab a decade ago — known as graphene.

Yet, as a country, we are probably more vulnerable than we were a decade ago because we failed to take seriously the most important lesson of the crisis: the dangers of housing mania and the perils of household debt.

«Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer.

As an investor in Russia a decade ago, Browder saw a friend, Sergei Magnitsky, murdered and his own money stolen.

He says Adidas needs to «reset» everywhere, not just in the U.S. Evaluating the brand, Liedtke is as brutal as the critics, acknowledging that young athletes aren't looking to the three stripes the way they did a decade or two ago.

That year, just a decade ago, it was hard to imagine that a President of the United States would ever use a social media channel as a primary form of communication.

A decade ago, the rental market was not as competitive.

But for the most part, solar panels are just as big and ugly as they were when they hit the market more than four decades ago.