Sentences with phrase «close to a year ago»

Close to a year ago I wrote about my perfect credit card trifecta for maximizing my purchases.

Since the game released close to a year ago now, they have released one major event in the Chocobo festival, Exosuits similar to Power Rangers, 2 DLC's and much more.

(I, myself, and many I know still haven't been moved to the new outlook.com, even though it was announced close to a year ago.)

Not exact matches

This financial picture, combined with the labour strife, has forced its share price below 90 cents, down from $ 1.10 in January and a tiny fraction of its value five years ago, when it traded at close to $ 20.

We started seeing ransomware popping up about four years ago in the corporate world, and if you look at the percentages of people who have paid, close to 50 % of them have been attacked again.

Our presale numbers were amazing, close to Mario Kart 8 numbers a year ago, which is amazing because Mario Kart is an established franchise.

«It became too difficult to turn a profit last year, so I closed the canteen and went to find work as a cook,» said Zhang, who left Bianqiang village 14 years ago.

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

A year ago this week, after close to eight years, I left Microsoft and jumped headfirst into the world of startups and joined Porch.com, a home - improvement network.

Two years ago, when Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquiao, more than four million PPV buys resulted in close to $ 400 million in revenue.

Relations between the U.S. and its closest ally have been repeatedly strained since Trump took office a year ago and U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May became the first foreign leader to meet him at the White House.

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.

The hearing wrapped up about a half hour ago (you can watch it on C - SPAN), but Senators skeptical of his nomination questioned Gottlieb's close financial ties to the health care and biopharma industries, which have paid him millions in speaking and consulting fees over the years.

The Sixers have blatantly tanked for high draft picks the last two seasons, and don't seem any closer to competing for a playoff spot than they did two year ago when master - tanker Sam Hinkie was hired as GM.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

And Ludwig Hantson, the current CEO of Baxalta (bxlt), which Shire also acquired a few months ago, is set to leave his post after that deal closes later this year.

Two years ago, increased trade with Europe seemed a smart way for Canada to mitigate the potential damage caused by our close ties to the struggling United States.

I took the photos given to the media nearly 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere close to what is being described.

The change comes after Instagram two years ago updated its community guidelines to specifically ban photos and videos showing sexual intercourse, genitals and close - ups of fully nude buttocks.

In economic data, total mortgage application volume fell 0.2 percent for the week and was 0.8 percent lower than a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted survey.On Tuesday, U.S. markets finished in the red, with the Dow closing down more than 400 points, while on Wednesday, markets in Europe and Asia were both trading deep in the red.

In the meantime, another 30 - year old restaurant closed here two days ago as the staff decamped north and retired professors have been asked back as young ones can't afford to migrate here and house themselves.

«The news that people say is responsible [for the stock market's moves], to me that news was there a year ago, or some variety pretty close,» Paulsen said.

$ 273.5 million, or $ 1.23 per diluted common share, for the first quarter compared to $ 229.9 million, or $ 1 per diluted common share, a year ago, the company reported after the close of the stock market.

As of Tuesday's close, shares of Procter & Gamble have climbed more than 13 percent from one year ago and are up about 7 percent for the year - to - date period.

Looking ahead into 2018, I am keeping a close eye on the energy sector, where the ability of US exploration and production (E&P) companies to grow oil production — at half the price of oil from just a few years ago — remains a competitive advantage for these firms.

Figures from the Publishers Association's annual yearbook revealed that the invoiced value of consumer e-books dropped by close to 11 % to # 245m, the first fall since it started monitoring digital book sales seven years ago.

Years ago, Musk was close to bringing on Tony Fadell, the father of the iPod and former Nest CEO, as CEO of Tesla.

We expect to benefit from a higher level of new generic introductions in the fourth quarter versus a year ago, including the third quarter launches of generic versions of Lexapro, SEROQUEL and PLAVIX; we will have some cost associated with the Alliance Boots transaction, the magnitude of which in part will be determined by the actual closing date of the first step.

«Albertans in particular will remember what it was like a few years ago to find restaurants closed because of a shortage of workers.»

In February, 33 % of closed home loans had an average FICO credit score of less than 700, compared to 24 % one year ago.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

Emil Michael, Uber's business head who got into trouble several years ago after making idiotic threats against a female reporter, is very close to him, as well as Uber founder and non-executive board chairman Garrett Camp and longtime Uber exec Ryan Graves.

That's a change from just a few weeks ago, when Time Warner was telling investors the deal was on track to close by the end of the year.

«The closest I got to deleting was maybe a year or so ago,» said Laurel Brooks, a 27 - year - old program assistant in D.C..

With the GFC close to 10 years ago now and a substantial amount of regulatory reform having been undertaken, the focus is turning to implementation and taking stock of the effectiveness of the reforms.

Even though mortgage closing costs are just slightly higher as compared to a year ago, they can still affect your budget.

Closed home sales in Denton County rose about 4 percent compared to last year while the average price of a Denton County home was roughly 7 percent higher than this time a year ago.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

«While yesterday's inflation numbers make a Fed rate rise in March more or less a done deal the prospect of additional rate rises later on in the year don't appear to be causing the same consternation in equity markets that they were a week ago, as US markets closed higher for the fourth day in succession, despite initially opening lower in the wake of the release of the data,» said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.

Google started its program nearly eight years ago, only recently renaming the effort Waymo as it moves closer to commercializing the valuable software that it plans to license to auto manufacturers.

This past December letters were sent out advising Albertans that water license applications submitted over 15 years ago were being closed and water access related to those applications were being revoked.

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A year ago, yields on 10 - year bonds in Australia were around 9 per cent; by late 1996 they had fallen to close to 7 per cent (Graph 29).

In the mature stage of a long expansion, with less spare capacity than would have been the case some years ago, monetary policy needs to keep a close eye on future growth in demand.

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

Despite the recent advance, prices are not even close to the levels the market enjoyed just a few years ago.

She continued to run the bar after her husband's death in 1994 but closed it two years ago, her clientele dwindling as the company downsized.

A few years ago I came real close to dying.

Former bandmate Tony Rivers wrote on Facebook: «It has been absolutely depressing for Sir Cliff, two years of hell, with the totally unsubstantiated accusations he's had to live with, other problems and just when the BBC / Police stuff was dropped, he has lost his close family member Donna (his sister) who passed away a day or so ago.

Some think that the bible tells them that the earth has to be less than 10,000 years old rather than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.