Sentences with phrase «build years ago»

The momentum for the natural pet category began to build years ago.

A large building designed as a film studio, built some years ago on town land at the industrial park in Wainscott, received a go - ahead specifically because the board at the time sought to bring film productions into the town as an economic stimulus.

And thanks to The Five's status as the main route between the state's major population centers, the cell towers necessary to provide end - to - end coverage were built years ago, meaning I only lost signal a handful of times and for short periods — all due to unfavorable topography.

The Continental is the big sedan that Lincoln should have built years ago, with striking exterior design, an elegant interior, impressively stable handling, and solid performance.

However, many of the brands that were built years ago by independents have since been moved to Petco and PetSmart, and some have even crossed into the grocery and mass channel.

Nuclear power is off topic, but, you are talking about particular designs of reactors that were built years ago.

Barak J. Sky, 26, knows he'll someday head the sales team his mother, Chana Sky, started building years ago.

His former wife designed it when they built it years ago, and I'm mashing together what I brought more than two years ago.

Our new home (we built a year ago) isn't right on the ocean, but it is close....

We are blessed and cursed with a long, narrow back yard featuring towering poplar trees and a huge party deck that my hubby built years ago.

Not exact matches

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

«I look back on a long career and I think, Gee, 50 years ago we built this hotel, and it still is here.

«This is how you build in Toronto,» said Smith, who joined six - year - old Gillam almost two years ago.

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

It all lends credence to Tehrani's claim that, from the outset 15 years ago, he sought to build a different kind of biotechnology firm — «a truly rational drug development company,» as he puts it.

When I started this venture a bit over a year ago, I knew nothing about building websites or the importance of social media.

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

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.

A couple of years ago, one of our best developers quit on us mainly because the team we had built wasn't good enough for him.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

For instance, in the 29 - storey Central Point towers, built three years ago, a handful of tenants finally moved in last fall, according to a property manager.

A few years ago, I was desperate to rent extra storage space while we finished building a new warehouse for our customers» boxes of storable goods.

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.

Founded just 20 years ago, Under Armour has built itself up to become a significant rival to Nike (nke) and Adidas in North America, at first by building a sizable men's apparel business.

«We've all got BlackBerrys on our hips, but we're building with the same materials we used 30 or 40 years ago,» he says.

A few years ago McDonald's and A&W in Canada started focusing on poutine and building the whole category.

Nearly 40 years ago, before he became a popular action movie star and long before he began his political career, Schwarzenegger built his own bricklaying business alongside a friend and fellow bodybuilder.

So, two years ago McGuinty followed Quebec's example by trying to build much of the needed equipment within its own borders.

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

Five years ago, after being a year or so in business, the three co-founders of Indiegogo, the second largest crowdfunding platform in the U.S, were brainstorming about why they were passionate about their business and how they would build the company.

The world was a very different place 22 years ago when Jobs gave this interview (thanks, in many ways, to the tech Jobs helped build in those decades), but this advice is timeless.

Her company applied for a permit to operate in the building more than two years ago but still hasn't received an answer, so now she pays a bribe.

Since launching KingFisher more than 20 years ago, he and his management team have built the 150 - person company into the market leader in the heavy - gauge welded aluminum boat category.

Since I started this business over two years ago, I have had a goal of building an industry - leading service for local businesses, but I never dreamed we (SinglePlatform, the team, and me personally) would have had this opportunity.

I used this approach with a friend of mine a few years ago for a website he was building for his tutoring company - Genesis Tutoring.

By 2020, 50 percent of the workforce will be working remotely,» said Guissett, who came to the U.S. seven years ago when the Belgium travel tech company he was working for wanted to build out their U.S. branch in California.

Eight years ago Buffett invested $ 232 million for a nearly 10 % stake in BYD (Build Your Dreams), a Chinese company that makes lithium - ion batteries and electric cars.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

Imagine the shock I received 14 years ago when my advisory council told me, in no uncertain terms, that without me they would leave the firm that I spent my life building and growing.

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

Several years ago, my company needed to hire a contractor to construct a new building for our business.

Vizio started building a Chromecast into its TVs a couple of years ago, and this year it turned on Google Home integration.

A similar exclusion zone had to be set up less than three years ago, when a German bomb was found in an East London building site.

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.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

IBM's decision to build out public and private clouds for infrastructure and application development won plaudits, but the researchers found that SoftLayer, which IBM (IBM) bought for $ 2 billion two years ago, has little to distinguish itself from competitors other than its mix of virtualized and non-virtualized bare - metal capabilities and broad geographic coverage.

And Facebook, which reportedly tried to buy it for $ 3 billion four years ago, is building a rival product.

Having put off the building of the hotel complex for a number of years after the global financial crisis, construction of the 307 - room DreamMore, which will be is next door to Dollywood, started over two years ago.