Sentences with phrase «based years ago»

I wish I had come upon whole food plant based years ago when my kids were little.

The biggest upward surge in the euro was in the second quarter last year when French President Emmanuel Macron was elected, and Q2 earnings will thus be compared with a higher euro base a year ago.

Not exact matches

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).

That's what the developers of Russia - based startup Displair did two years ago.

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

But the former dominatrix says the very premise all of her trainings is based on — the idea that hidden power dynamics often impact minorities and women in unfair ways — seemed totally foreign to so many would - be students five years ago when she started teaching.

Ten years ago, founders Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck started building a business based on improving an online game they loved.

Recently, Toronto - based health care startup Figure 1 reached an important milestone: more than 500,000 medical professionals are now using its app, up from 150,000 users a year ago.

Two years ago, she and her partner went shopping for a motorcycle but came back with a Can - Am Spyder, the muscled - up motor - trike invented by BRP Inc., based in Valcourt, Que.

Bad debts were a problem until a few years ago, when the client base had grown to the extent that the company could afford to pick and chose.

The Canada Pension Plan started operation 50 years ago in 1966 as a stand - alone program based on a federal - provincial partnership.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

AB InBev said it began to rethink its role in the U.S. beer industry about five years ago, starting with its purchase of Chicago - based Goose Island.

On an adjusted basis, Restaurant Brands, which also owns Burger King and Popeyes, says it earned 66 cents per share for the quarter, up from 36 cents per share a year ago.

Many years ago, lending used to be character based.

Sergeant Alex Sobolewski of the West Midlands Police, who is based at Brierley Hill about 130 miles (210 km) northwest of London, said a large part of his work now concerns people trafficking, a crime barely discussed five years ago.

I founded TextingForward.com, LLC, a cloud - based mobile platform software that enables you to text large groups and simple one - on - one texts with four partners almost six years ago.

A year ago, Rackspace put itself on the block and four months later took itself off, so clearly the San Antonio, Texas - based company is ready to review its options.

On an adjusted basis to remove one - time items such as the tax charge, Canada's biggest lenders earned roughly $ 11.3 billion, up approximately 12.59 per cent from a year ago

The Beijing - based search engine company, founded about 16 years ago, is looking toward its Silicon Valley office to work towards that goal.

Ma reaped more than $ 800 million selling shares in the company he set up 15 years ago as Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, based on company filings, with the value of his remaining stake of 7.8 percent surging to more than $ 17 billion by Monday.

The recall that forms the basis of this suit was entirely voluntary and occurred more than four years ago in September 2011.

Los Angeles - based City National, acquired by RBC in 2015, contributed US$ 114 million in net income in the latest quarter, more than double compared to a year ago.

Net income attributable to shareholders in the quarter, based on a current cost of supplies (CCS) and excluding identified items, rose to $ 5.322 billion from a year ago, compared with a company - provided analysts» consensus of $ 5.277 billion.

Based on these numbers, it would now take almost 2.5 years at the increased salary to cover b - school costs vs. 1 year ten years ago.

«Maybe the reason why the iPhone 7 is not a big design innovation is because it realizes the aging dynamics of the base and saw this coming years ago, choosing to save the true cycle of innovation for when the base would be incredibly ripe.

Both companies are betting that the same customer base who would have laughed at the idea of paying $ 6 for a cup of coffee 20 years ago but now does so daily can be persuaded to do the same for a carefully steeped cup of Jasmine Oolong.

TFS moved away from being a company based on MIS revenue years ago, as anyone who looks at its income streams would clearly see.

Having grown Perth - based Navitas from a start - up 23 years ago into a global education services provider and one of WA's top 10 listed companies, co-founder Rod Jones is handing the reins to former iiNet boss David Buckingham.

The Toronto - based miner said adjusted net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 were $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with $ 162 million, or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a year ago.

Still, Wall Street has continued to lower its estimates for growth this year and next, with GDP now expected to be 1.95 percent for 2016, 19 basis points lower than in March and below 2 percent for the first time since the question was first asked a year ago.

Southwest ended the precise mileage component of its big sales a few years ago, but its big sales have continued to closely mimic its previous distance - based promotions.

When Cory Silverberg, a Toronto - based sex educator and author, decided two years ago to write a kids book on human reproduction called What Makes a Baby, he considered two options.

Five years ago, Chris Keevil, head of Halifax - based marketing firm Colour, would keep new employees for up to two years before deciding whether they were a fit.

This is a 21st - century marketplace and the consumer base is changing from what it was 10 or 20 years ago.

Four years ago Agnes Huff, president and CEO of Los Angeles - based Agnes Huff Communications, unexpectedly lost her husband of 41 years.

The CRTC last year approved a request by Bell Canada to charge its wholesale ISPs based on how much their customers use the Internet, but the firestorm kicked off two weeks ago when the rates were finalized.

The DHP Rosedale Metal Canopy Bed Frame has a 4.4 - star rating based on 27 customer reviews, which isn't a ton, but we took into consideration that this model came out less than a year ago.

When GE did a global search four years ago for companies to partner with to build their next technology, they picked DTI as we had an excellent technology base which was proven,» he said.

That quest has landed Beim and Celmatix, the New York City - based company she founded in 2009, in an exploding field that seemed sleepy just a few years ago.

TPGTEX Label Solutions Inc., a Houston - based seller of label - printing software, printers and related products, got a head start on finding a new printer supplier a couple of years ago after a friendly sales representative, without going into too much detail, warned that the company's existing vendor was on rocky footing.

The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

Some years ago, Ashley Good, founder and CEO of Toronto - based consultancy Fail Forward, was working for Engineers Without Borders in Ghana when it soon became clear that the project she was part of was horribly flawed and would not succeed.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

A Tesla spokesperson told Mercury News, «While we can always do even better, the BBB numbers are based on a tiny number of customer issues dating back several years, most of which were resolved a long time ago.

I consider the content strong, based on my first Harvard talk a couple years ago.

A report from the Kansas City, Mo. - based entrepreneurship organization The Kauffman Foundation released two years ago called «We Have Met The Enemy... And He Is Us,» slammed the VC market for being dysfunctional and suggested that Kauffman would itself invest in smaller VC funds going forward.

Based on intelligence gathered by Syrian and Russian air defense crews from the U.S. strike exactly a year and a week ago on Shayrat Airbase in Syria, air defense crews were likely well - drilled and prepared to meet a U.S. - led attack on their claimed chemical weapons facilities.

Some 12 years ago, Bob Blackwell walked away from a high - level job at IBM to start his own firm, Blackwell Consulting Services, based in Chicago.

Despite a 34 % jump in revenues, the New Jersey - based energy company slid to a loss from a year - ago profit due in large part to impairment charges on plants in Delaware and Australia.