Sentences with phrase «dozen years earlier»

The effect of these drops drove the lowest rates available in 2007 to less than half of what they had been a dozen years earlier.

In this way, Matta - Clark surpassed the play with gravity and eye - level that Donald Judd and Carl Andre had begun a dozen years earlier.

Barely a majority of freshman were «college - prepared,» versus two - thirds of students a dozen years earlier.

A half - dozen years earlier in Washington, D.C., Cardinal Hickey had appointed a commission to study the problems confronting his diocese's inner - city schools.

The thirty - year - old Londoner hasn't exactly grown up or settled down; she's single, living with a friend, and carrying on the way she might have a dozen years earlier but with perhaps less responsibility.

Like Father, Like Son (Unrated) Switched at birth drama about the life - altering decision faced by a couple (Masaharu Fukuyama and Keita Ninomiya) after being informed that they had taken the wrong baby home from the hospital a half - dozen years earlier.

Conceived as a military aircraft manufacturer a dozen years earlier, Sweden's Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget suffered a cataclysmic but unsurprising postwar plunge in product demand.

The «decade» of Steve actually began in 1997, when he returned to Apple after having been ousted a dozen years earlier.

Not exact matches

During Zappos's early years, Hsieh decided that customer service was the most important function of his company and proceeded to craft dozens of counterintuitive policies that lavished benefits on the low - wage workers who answered the phones.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

So they listened as a dozen lawyers debated whether records of conversations the two men had had with another group of lawyers years earlier could be used against them at their looming fraud trial.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

In June, the Western US experienced the most intense heat wave ever to strike so early in the year, leading to dozens of flight cancellations.

♦ In early October, Le Monde reported that Catholic universities in the national French system have doubled enrollments in the last dozen years.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

For instance: Earlier this month, the Seattle Times investigated the reported numbers of women who row for the University of Washington and «found dozens of women who appear to have not been on the women's rowing team, but whom the UW counted as crew participants in reports to federal officials over the past several years.»

After dozens of lawmakers were sanctioned due to ethical misconduct, a new low was hit earlier this year with the arrest and indictment of the now - former Assembly Speaker.

The company — which Pegula formed in 1983 — had been active in upstate New York over the years, particularly in the early years of the 2000s, when it drilled dozens of conventional natural - gas wells in the Trenton Black River formation in Chemung and Steuben counties.

For example, in Michigan in the early 1990s, the Law Review Commission was led by a law professor who devoted perhaps 200 hours a year to the job in exchange for a small stipend, who coordinated the efforts of perhaps a dozen volunteer commission members who devoted perhaps 50 hours a year to the job, and a couple of law student interns who worked mostly in the summer for perhaps 300 hours a year each.

When combined with their more than three dozen affiliates — the UAlbany foundation has a biosciences - related offshoot, for instance — foundations control nearly $ 3 billion in assets and bring in $ 378 million in annual revenue, according to a presentation by the university controller earlier this year.

NJ Transit underwent a Federal Railroad Administration audit earlier this year to examine the system's safety protocols, and authorities found dozens of violations, according to an official familiar with the matter.

We'll stick to statewide general elections for Senate and governor, even though there are plenty of eyebrow - raising results in party primaries (Sen. Dick Lugar's loss in 2012), off - season special elections (Scott Brown's triumph in early 2010) and U.S. House races (a good half - dozen of them every election year).

Earlier this year, Cuomo proposed having the city pay more for each — what would have amounted to $ 485 million less a year in state funding for the city university system, a plan that drew protests last week in which dozens were arrested.

The hapless leftie was pictured in his grey tracksuit ahead of another day of announcements about the new Labour frontbench as he tries to fill dozens of holes left after mass resignations earlier this year.

The shallow, salty seas spotted in 2004 evaporated from scientists» view of early Mars within a few years, but even so, the past decade's half - dozen martian missions have finally delivered.

Earlier this year a group of more than a dozen health advocacy groups and individuals petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban lead acetate from hair dyes.

In trying to explain the apparent decline in reflectivity, lead author Chris Polashenski, an adjunct assistant professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and a research geophysicist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and his colleagues analyzed dozens of snow - pit samples from the 2012 - 2014 snowfalls across northern Greenland and compared them with samples from earlier years.

Dozens of quotes from his writings and speeches, paired with images, capture his early life in the late 1870s in Germany, through his time in Zurich and Berlin, to his final 20 years at Princeton.

Dozens of quotes from his writings and speeches are paired with images of his early life in Germany and his final years at Princeton.

A team of paloeanthropologists compared the skulls of several dozen Paleoamericans, which date back to the early days of migration 11,000 years ago, with those of more than 300 Amerindians, which date to 1000 years ago.

Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

Dozens of utilities surveyed by Reuters earlier this year said they would continue to move away from coal despite efforts by the Trump administration to revive the coal industry.

In fact, a paper out earlier this year reported that humans have acquired dozens of genes this way in just the past few million years.

Lo's laboratory has for more than a dozen years studied immune responses in the gut and airways, focusing particularly on cells which function as an early warning in the immune system.

Gone are the glory days of the early 2000s, when a doubling of the agency's budget over five years allowed it to establish dozens of programs with their own large, dedicated budgets.

LA JOLLA, CA — December 5, 2013 — Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

When NuScale's founder, Dr. Jose Reyes, first sketched out his idea for a revolutionary nuclear power design in the early two - thousands, he had yet to imagine the successes the company would mark more than a dozen years later.

A major, two - year investigation revealed in early 2017 found that dozens of journals accepted a sham scientist onto their editorial boards without any investigation into the applicant's background.

So since early 2012 I had literally tried dozens of other brands, hoping that I would find a product that would even compare to the previous formula that the other brand used to make that had made my skin so amazing for so many years.

I started getting serious with treating psoriasis patients in the early 1990's, and began to develop my own methods over a period of several years after studying over two dozen books on psoriasis.

And then, from the very back of beyond and close to the fashionable heart of international modernism, for a half dozen years from the mid-Sixties to the early Seventies, there was Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó.

Project Casting shared dozens of casting calls for actors, models, and dancers to work on the movie as it filmed earlier this year.

From the opening credits to an early gag involving a portrait artist, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin formally announces its intent to respect the style and vision of Hergé, the Belgian artist who created Tintin and took the boy reporter / adventurer through two dozen books of comic - book adventures over the course of more than 40 years.

Apart from a few early documentaries, Stanley Kubrick made only a dozen films in his 45 - year career.

Already in his early sixties, the accomplished Fonda couldn't quite reclaim superstardom but he stuck around for another dozen years until On Golden Pond became his sweet swan song.

At a lunch at Film4's Cannes HQ (sadly, not a building in the shape of a giant four — they're slipping up), Film4's Tessa Ross, who won a BAFTA earlier in the year, cued up a showreel that contained brief glimpses at around a dozen forthcoming Film4 titles.

The previous per - theater - average record for a live - action film actually came from earlier this year when another Anderson, Wes, saw his «Moonrise Kingdom» average $ 130,749 from 4 screens, which topped «Dreamgirls,» «Brokeback Mountain» and «Precious,» the only other live - action films to find averages north of $ 100,000 (a dozen or so animated Disney films have much higher averages thanks to massive special screenings they'd hold before wide release — «The Lion King» is still # 1 with a whopping $ 793,377).

The government's focus should be on investment in the thousands of early years providers in England, not fiddling with 160 grammar schools to appease a couple of dozen back - benchers.

New grants totaling nearly $ 30 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will underwrite dozens of new «early college» high schools, with a goal of more than tripling the nation's supply of such schools over the next four years.