Sentences with phrase «first year ever»

This was also the first year I ever marvelled to the lady renewing my policy on how cheap motor vehicle insurance is nowadays, compared to gassing the beast up for the week.

This was the first year they ever ran out of letters.

This was the first year ever that a single website tried to stream the entire show, as twitch.tv moved into the annual conference.

It hadn't come to my attention until I wrote the earlier post, «Sunk costs and Adverse Selection,» that this might be the first year I ever fly 100 % award flights.

But for the first year ever, the Yulin controversy reached Chinese President Xi Jinping in the form of a formal resolution drafted by U.S. Congressman Alcee Hastings (D - Fla), and a letter from HSI — along with the signatures of 11 million people from around the world — calling on China to shut down the festival and ban the trade.

From the very first year I ever did Westminster I said I feel like my job is to show that we are real people in this sport and that these are real dogs.

For the first year ever, the silent auction integrated mobile auction technology which allowed bidders to have the entire auction right at their fingertips.

Acting as Grand Marshal for the first year ever was Miami - Dade County Mayor, Carlos A. Gimenez, who presented us with a proclamation.

Had 2013 been the first year I ever used TT or I failed to enter adequate information so it «knew» we had previously claimed the credit, I wouldn't have an argument.

As a relative newbie in the publishing industry, this was the first year I ever attended book fairs: early summer I went to London (this was kind of home territory), then this October I participated in Frankfurt Book Fair: I thought it will be similar to the London one, but I was mistaken.

2014 was the first year ever that tablets truly overtook dedicated e-readers as the device of choice to borrow audiobooks, newspapers, magazines and eBooks.

For the first year ever, the automotive experts from Edmunds.com have released what they consider to be the Top Rated Vehicles.

This was set to be the first year ever that city teachers would be judged, in part, by how well their students performed on state tests, but now, if a teacher's rating is bad, the state test scores won't count, at least for the next two years.

For the first year ever, principals were not allowed to assign teachers or kids to classes within their own buildings.

This is the first year ever that most of the Oscar ballots will be turned in before the Producers Guild announces its ten nominees (January 3).

With Lupita, Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, and Jared Leto taking home the four acting prizes, this could be the first year ever that the four winners at the Spirit Awards also win at the Oscars.

In fact, this might be the first year ever that I felt entirely true to myself in every single one of these outfits.

Not only was this my first year ever to attend StyleCon, it was the first year StyleCon was in Dallas!

For the first year ever, we have zero plans.

This is the first year ever that I haven't made my own fall wreath.

My first year ever hosting Christmas and I am ECSTATIC.

Might be the first year ever I make a pie instead of cake!

I can still see my middle school coach looking me in the face and saying this during my first year ever suiting up for football in the seventh grade.

However, the good news is that 2015 was the first year ever recorded where renewable energy sources surpassed coal to become the world's largest source of electricity capacity.

Instead, what developed was a gently ever - ascending bull market, the least volatile in more than 50 years and the first year ever to post positive total returns (for the S&P 500) in every month.

Not exact matches

Even after more than 20 years in business, the world's biggest streaming video service experienced some of its fastest growth ever in the first quarter, helping to give its stock a big lift.

Puj made just over $ 1 million in revenue in its first official year in business (2010) and has seen sales grow 10 to 30 percent per year ever since.

Meyers said Weinstein would have his comeback to Hollywood «in 20 years when he's the first person ever booed during the In Memoriam.»

As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.

Ever since it was first floated a year ago, the idea of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a number of areas.

2016's movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global box office record, becoming the first studio to ever top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

The company's iPhone, which makes up the biggest chunk of its revenue, saw its first year - over-year revenue decline ever in Apple's last - reported fiscal quarter ended March 26, investors are deeply concerned about the iPad's future, and even Macs saw sales slip last quarter.

Social Media Prediction: Video Is Going to Be Bigger Than Ever This Year First, social media was about status updates.

NHL 12 has sold more than 415,000 copies since its release worldwide on September 13, a 19 % increase over last year and the franchise's best ever first - week sales.

With this new capital, we are closer than ever to the first flight of our XB - 1 Supersonic Demonstrator in about a year.»

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

Last year, the company released the Google Pixel, the first phone it ever designed by itself.

The governor announced last week that 57.4 million visitors came to the state during the first six months of the year, the highest number ever, according to the report.

Over the course of three - plus years, McQueen — who has appeared in the MTV reality show Nitro Circus and FuelTV's Thrillbillies — has won Monster Jam's Rising Star Award, a monster truck racing title in New Orleans, and in 2010 he made Monster Jam history by landing the first - ever back flip in competition.

Eight years ago, I was given a contract for $ 250,000 to fulfill a marketing need for my first ever blue - chip client and it went disastrously wrong.

Here is the first - ever PR Daily Year in Jargon:

Tod Wilson is the owner of Mr. Tod's Pie Factory, a wholesale and retail bakery with locations in Somerset and Englewood, N.J.. He's also the first person ever to win «Shark Tank,» and his life and business have both changed considerably in the more than four years since.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

Local miner Sandfire Resources has delivered its first - ever fully franked dividend to shareholders, despite an 11.7 per cent slide in net profit to $ 69 million for the financial year.

Twenty years ago today, on October 27, 1994, the first - ever banner ad was served on HotWired.com.

Last year, a small movie studio even released what it claimed to be the first scripted feature film ever shot and released entirely on the messaging app.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

After a year of acquisitions and big contract wins, diversified business OTOC has returned to the black and will pay its first - ever dividend.

Fortunately, after attending CES in Las Vegas for 14 years in a row but hitting SxSW for the first time ever, I have a unique perspective.

For those wondering whether the Model X and Model 3 are ever being released, Musk assured in the blog post that first deliveries for the X are slated to happen in two months, and for the 3 in roughly two years.