Sentences with phrase «as of a few years»

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving as of a few years ago, according to an industry study, a number that has been falling.

Oh and carbon dating has a resolution of about 500 years as of a few years ago, so by now they probably have gotten a bit better at it.

Thankfully there's another option as of a few years ago... 2.

Site owned by HERE media as of few years ago.

Answer: I don't think so - it is really hard to find as of a few years ago.

First, as of a few years ago, Google will only allow phone number extensions.

Not exact matches

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

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.

Originally they'd wanted to sell their shares for a big profit after a few years to the unsuspecting public, but since the idea of bankruptcy had been floated, that options was off the table, as the shares had plunged.

Over the next few years, count on some walk - in urgent - care centers to evolve into true standalone emergency rooms and for ambulances to increasingly head there instead of to hospital ERs, particularly in the case of certain types of injuries (such as wounds or broken bones).

Kennedy saw the online dating industry grow and change over the past few years as general counsel and then deputy CEO of Badoo and then as an advisor and member of Bumble's board.

As Americans slept through the first few hours of July 4, Kim Jong Un personally observed the culmination of a years - long goal — the testing of a missile that he can use to nuke the US mainland.

On her site, Fobes uses the example of a person who drives an old clunker or even takes the bus for a few years, so as to be able to afford to pay for a new car in cash.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

A few years ago, it looked like streaming players might become obsolete as televisions became capable of hosting apps without the need for extra hardware.

The past few years have flown by for me since I left my job as Head of Marketing at Salesforce Pardot and joined my co-founders to launch Terminus.

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

In 1993, Conlon joined one of Chicago's top real estate firms at the time, and within only a few short years, he had made a name for himself as one of the most prolific sellers of residential real estate throughout not only Chicago and and the Midwest, but also the entire U.S. with sales approaching $ 200 million annually.

As Fain points out, «The ability to more fully describe and understand a consumer's behavior is more complete than ever before, and that kind of data will make AI marketing tools even more effective over the next few years.»

That's quite a few: As CEO of Acker Merrall & Condit, his family's nearly 200 - year - old Manhattan wine shop, the 41 - year - old spends about 120 days a year on the road, mostly courting the still - booming Asian wine market.

Over the last few years, Trump has cultivated an image as something of a connoisseur, giving interviews to international media about her favorite artists and sharing advice for beginner art collectors on her blog.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

«With Pokémon Go, you are seeing it as bypassing a lot of digital (marketing) channels that the brick and mortar shops have been relying on for the past few years,» said Christophe Jammet, director of social media and mobile at consultancy DDG in New York.

Her firm signed on, joining Guggenheim Partners, Jones Lang LaSalle, Perella Weinberg Partners, Nasdaq, Yale, and Duke as just a few of RelSci's first 300 customers last year.

Apple needed market penetration, which is why in the store's first few years it grew slowly as Apple was building its audience of device owners.

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

As most of us know, viewership has declined for local news stations over the past few years.

A few years later, with the U.S. market in a nose - dive, Flying Colours decided to find new customers in the Asia - Pacific region, which wasn't experiencing the same kind of economic implosion as North America and Europe.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

«You can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years.

«As more people move out of their parents» basement — and there's still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,» said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year.

A few cities on the lower - half of the list shuffled spots from last year, but not Canada's, which retained not only the same rankings from last year but the same scores as well.

Incidentally, on this year's list fewer companies rely on «Fortune 1,000» customers as their main source of revenues than on lists from the past three years.

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

Over the past few years, smartphones and tablets have arisen to become mobile gaming powerhouses, leading observers to speculate on whether the death of portable systems such as the Vita is nigh.

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

The upheaval we've been through in the past few years as the private debt bubble burst is only a preview of what's to come, concludes Mauldin, the president of Millennium Wave Advisors (writing here with an editor for an economic analysis firm).

It took me a few years to truly understand how to manage startup metrics as CEO of Brainscape, despite having nearly 10 previous years of experience in economics, finance and statistics.

A lot of work and development has gone into building on storage technology over the last few years, and as such, they've gotten a lot better.

But the past few years have been tough on casual restaurants — a vast category that occupies everything between fast food and fine dining — as chains have surrendered market share to a growing wave of upscale fast - food brands like Five Guys and Freshii.

Not only has the use of mobile devices to access the internet risen sharply in the last few years, but so have mobile sales, as customers are more and more comfortable shopping from their cell phone.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.