Sentences with phrase «been in a few years ago»

He is 32 years old after all and was unlikely to suddenly reverse to the form he was in a few years ago.

Times change quickly in football, though, and despite the idea that Arsenal may not be in a much better position than we were in a few years ago when the the Arsenal transfer rumours about Benzema were really at their peak, it is a much different situation now.

Ditto all of the above - I'm in the same mode now that you were in a few years ago, working my ass off at an unusually profitable contract job, being broke as hell all the time while managing my «real job» and two to four rehabs at any given moment.

Not exact matches

Elkins is originally from the San Francisco Bay area but took the digital nomad route a few years ago and now lives in Tel Aviv.

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

Just a few years ago, consoles were the only game in town, so to speak.

The name Kit and Ace is a reference to the brand's «aspirational muses»: the young woman, Kit — short for Shannon and Chip's beloved Kitsilano neighbourhood in Vancouver where, a few years ago, they built a waterfront home now assessed at $ 57 million — and her hunky beau, Ace.

«Ten years ago, we were at 16 [women in the Senate] and even 20 years ago we had fewer than 10 women serving in the Senate,» she said.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

ShantiNiketan, meanwhile, caters to Indian immigrants and has been a hit since it opened in Florida a few years ago.

They launched in Japan a year ago, and they're still a small player there, so there are quite a few geographical markets that are still untapped.

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).

Having had the sublime pleasure of riding in a robot car a few years ago (and writing about it again recently), it was with great interest that I read the cover story in the latest issue of Wired.

It's an unfamiliar role for a guy who just a few years ago was trundling around town in a Lexus SUV.

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.

A few years ago video resumes, where people sat in front of webcams spelling out their qualifications and showing a bit of personality, were all the rage.

Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.

Speaking with friends in the industry, it feels like a few years ago there was such a move by indie developers to build apps and put them up in the smart device stores.

Evans, who previously ran a design and marketing agency in Montreal, was looking for a new business venture, and connected with Mansbridge a few years ago.

At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

It's funny that both companies are now underdogs, given that only a few years ago they were the undisputed kings of their respective realms — Microsoft in software and Nokia in phones.

For the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics, by comparison, there were a few dozen torches in the relay, according to O'Neil, who says one sold for approximately $ 742,000 two years ago.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

The jobs market, even after the rebound in June, is still creating 28 % fewer jobs this year a month on average than a year ago.

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

His interest in Canadian policy debates was rekindled a few years ago, he says, around the time he was invited to participate in a 2010 «thinkers» conference put on by then - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in Montréal.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

Motorola says the device, which sold particularly well in India and Brazil and re-established the company in the United Kingdom, is its most successful smartphone yet — even more so than its Droid a few years ago.

The beauty of bots in 2016 is that, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphone screens, consumers aren't fazed by chatting with a robot when picking out their Christmas shopping or asking about a product return the way they would have been even a few years ago.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

A small investment in Bitcoin a few years ago would be a small fortune now, which predicts absolutely nothing about what an investment now will be worth later.

Fewer than 10 years ago, communities on the east side of Austin, Texas, were in serious decline.

It was a blockbuster product for Nintendo a few years ago, but the company sold fewer than 900,000 in the last quarter, down from 1.4 million at this time last year.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

So, for example, a few years ago, there was a power plant that was disabled in the Ukraine.

That's what director Brad Bird did a few years ago when Pixar brought him in to re-energize the company.

«When I became a mom a few years ago, it was just my husband and I who lived in Oklahoma, as we are from the South.

He also indicated it would be something people wouldn't be embarrassed to wear in public — a nod of recognition to the fact that people were less than comfortable interacting with others wearing Google Glass, the futuristic head - mounted computer system that Google created a few years ago.

A few years ago, I got asked by one of my friends who is in PR, Heather West, to do some social - media consulting for Ramona Singer, a star from the Bravo TV show, The Real Housewives of New York City.

One of the director D.E. Shaw got on the board was David Batchelder, a key player in Home Depot's comeback a few years ago.

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

An individual's full genome can be sequenced today in a few hours, for $ 1,000 — the first genome sequencing took 13 years and cost $ 3 billion, and that was merely a decade ago.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

It's a lesson my business coach taught me a few years ago, and it's made an immense difference in my ability to close deals as a result.

We live in the era of the «niche,» when publications, websites, and influencers are all able to reach audiences and demographics that were unknown and untapped just a few years ago.

While it looked like oil prices were recovering slightly in June, they slipped back down over the past few weeks, continuing a decline that started to over two years ago.

When Captain Jimmy Holland was serving in Afghanistan a few years ago, he emailed Menchie CEO Amit Kleinberger to ask for help sending a care package of frozen yogurt to his wife, Jamie, in Tennessee.

That's according to David Noto, owner of Altaneve, a premium Italian sparkling wine that launched in the U.S. a year and a half ago and to date has sold 2,400 cases in more than 100 northeastern U.S. locations, with plans to expand into Las Vegas and California within the next few months.