Sentences with phrase «as a year ago»

That's exactly the same as a year ago, according to Bankrate.com.

The average price of a new vehicle in December was $ 32,890, which was about the same as a year ago, according to Kelley Blue Book.

Farmers are getting as much as 40 cents (32 US cents) a pound for certain varieties of lentils, almost twice as much as a year ago, said Nunweiler, a director at the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers.

It didn't meet guidance, but the progress on improving its balance sheet makes the company look much more compelling than it did as recently as a year ago.

As recently as years ago, two - thirds of Latinos were Catholic; now nearly one in four Hispanic adults is a former Catholic, according to Pew.

Back then we played so good, creating chances after chances, only to be led down by school boys defending mistakes, and today we play with our hearts out just to have the same results as years ago.

As recently as a year ago no one was landing them in competition.

But even after getting past the Presidents» Trophy - winning Washington Capitals in Game 7, the Penguins don't look as imposing as a year ago.

Team Shlofrock was as good as any a year ago and with a couple of bounces they could have been the ones left standing at the end..

It was one of 36 races that the National Republican Congressional Committee had targeted as early as a year ago.

Cuomo himself embraced a more regionally sensitive approach as recently as a year ago, when his fiscal 2016 budget called for an $ 11.50 minimum in the city and a $ 10.50 in the rest of the state.

As recently as a year ago, one would not have thought that the LHC would make so much progress in its Higgs search by the end of 2011, observes Dmitri Denisov, spokesperson for the DZero experiment, one of the detectors at Fermilab's recently retired Tevatron collider.

«As recently as a year ago, people thought this would be impossible,» she says.

The majority of parents polled believe vaccines have the same benefits as a year ago and think the safety of vaccines has stayed the same.

Yes they are still quite popular, but they're not in the spotlight in the same way as a year ago.

Okey the statement sleeves are still pretty much everywhere, even though they're not as talked about as a year ago.

New Yorkers are looking for a quick fix today where as years ago single men and women truly played the courtship game.

Only 28 % like the idea, while 56 % oppose it, about the same as a year ago.

Forty - four percent of respondents oppose the practice of requiring teachers to pay fees to unions they choose not to join, while just 37 % support the practice, much the same as a year ago.

There's some good precedent for Mercedes expanding its Geländewagen range in America, as a year ago the automaker caved to fanboy pressure and decided to bring the V -12-powered G65 to the U.S. market.

We do not see this type of thing nearly as much as years ago, but it still happens.

This option is highly recommended as years ago it would probably have cost an additional $ 4,000 for all these features.

In a fit of annoyance almost as year ago, we declared the Toyota Highlander the best mainstream midsize SUV, but withheld the Editors» Choice designation because Toyota pushed most useful tech options into the two most pricy trim lines.

If you've been car shopping recently, or just paying attention to Autoweek car reviews, you've noticed that the six - speed automatic — de rigueur as recently as a year ago — suddenly has ratio envy.

All I can say is that after I changed my thinking a year or so ago and concentrated on increasing traffic and forgot about selling books, my website income is now well in excess of my book sales income, which by good fortune has remained about the same as a year ago.

I can relate to this now, just as years ago when bear would have characters whose blood was filled with millions of healing nanobots, I imagined the author endured illness and its stigma the same as I had.

Vienna was tops for overall quality of living, followed by Zurich, Auckland, New Zealand and Munich — all the same as a year ago.

But as recently as a year ago, there was reason for optimism, as sales slowly increased again.

Just as years ago the airline elite game was finished and we became free agents, maybe it is time -LSB-...]

This year's survey of online balance transfer offers found that the market norms remain the same as a year ago: The most - common offers let consumers transfer a balance at 0 percent interest for about 12 months for a fee of 3 percent.

Not exact matches

Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

They'll remember you as the one who helped them years ago.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Orascom's founder, said publicly a year ago he regretted starting a carrier in Canada, partly owing to Ottawa's failure to amend what he regarded as archaic foreign - ownership restrictions.

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

Since starting CALM as an upstart, bicycle - mounted weed delivery service 17 years ago, the 41 - year - old has served roughly 4,000 customers and become one of Toronto's biggest ganjapreneurs.

How many of these businesses would've succeeded as brick - and - mortar shops just 20 years ago?

Fifteen years ago, we didn't know what «Cyber Monday» was, but now it's an important piece of holiday shopping (maybe as important as Black Friday to some people).

The machine could be a successor to Google's own Chromebook Pixel 2, which was discontinued almost a year ago, but other manufacturers could have a hand in its development as well.

DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

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.

«We found that our students are happy with Lululemon clothing they bought maybe four or five years ago, but they aren't as happy with the selection or quality of what they bought in the last year or two.»

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

Without Mahbod, Rap Genius would not exist... But I can not let him compromise the Rap Genius mission — a mission that remains almost as delicate and inchoate as it was when we three founders decided to devote our lives to it almost 5 years ago.»

It's also the first cola under the flagship Pepsi brand since Pepsi Next 2 1/2 years ago, and it will be among the first colas in the U.S. to use stevia, a plant native to Paraguay, as its primary sweetener.

As Red WiIson told us six years ago: To improve our standard of living in the increasingly competitive global economy, we must be prepared to «compete to win.»

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.

And I think as I said two years ago, I strongly believe that businesses and business leaders in America need to recognize that the rules of engagement have changed.

I reflect a lot on this story as it was only four years ago almost to the day.