Sentences with phrase «good a few years ago»

So credit where it's due, he does come up with the odd gem like Elneny, and that was good a few years ago for sustaining top 4 and raising funds with sell on value when we were strapped for cash.

We were close to signing him a good few years ago but he ended up having a bad injury at that time of interest.

I did a post on how stay at home moms can use blogging to make a bit of extra money that did really well a few years ago (http://www.blogtyrant.com/stay-home-moms-make-good-money-blogs-online-business/) and I think I might edit that post to include a link to this case study.

I was afraid of getting «bulky» — I didn't know any better a few years ago.

I go around the day with enough leptin in my body that I don't really get the hunger response that I used to know so well a few years ago.

Well a few years ago, I remember reading Tim Gunn answering fashion questions and he said something like, «neon colors with brown is a chic choice».

On another note, it was interesting to read your stuff about POF and speed dating, with the latter I had gone to a few events (a good few years ago) and can't recall getting anything positive back from anyone there.

Well a few years ago sometime in 2012 when I was 21 I was out at the bar with a few of my friends, and Samantha, one of my sisters friends were there with a few of her co-workers for happy hour.

Lucas and Walliams are undeniably very funny, but they seemed to run out of characters and ideas a good few years ago.

Recess Is Alive, (Mostly) Well A few years ago parent groups were angered by news that recess was being eliminated at many schools.

A good few years ago the original Etrian Odyssey tore colossal strips of time from my life.

It was a good few years ago now but we were acting on a large acquisition of a retail portfolio for Hammerson.

Not exact matches

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

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.

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.

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.

Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan included insuring your company against flood and disruption, backing up your data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.

For example, we saw how well received the Glenmorangie Sonnalta PX (extra matured in Pedro Ximenez casks) was a few years ago and we wanted to introduce some of that element to our permanent range, so we reformulated The Lasanta to contain as much PX extra matured Glenmorangie as was practical.

Apple is always good for a surprise or two, but other than the expected incorporation of fitness trackers, a larger screen and / or some sort of mobile payment technology, it's hard to imagine the company doing anything that will generate the same buzz as its first few iPhone models did just a few years ago.

Just a few years ago it would have sounded absurd for a Netflix exec to talk about what makes good storytelling.

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

The company produces far fewer videos than a year ago, but they perform better.

In one well - publicized case a few years ago, a Japanese cryptographer copied a fingerprint using a gelatin substance.

What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.

Since launching a few years ago, the brand's products have been worn by Beyoncé and her dancers on tour, as well as by the cast of the blockbuster film Hidden Figures.

A few years ago, Yes To hit a bump in the road (well, HUGE obstacle might be more accurate).

Feloni: Well, just a few years ago, former President Bill Clinton introduced you at a Clinton Foundation event.

Second Cup used to have one of the best loyalty programs in the sector, according to Fisher, but it was scrapped a few years ago, raising some eyebrows in the industry.

Taser, of course, is best known for the tiny stun guns carried by police and sometimes civilians, made particularly famous a few years ago when a student at the University of Florida screamed «Don't tase me, bro!»

When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).

Crystal Luxmore: A few years ago I went to Australia to visit my best friend.

Executives who only a few days ago raged against all the elements of the current compromise now say it is the only possible deal, way better than two more - BC Premier Gordon Campbell topped that at five more - years of uncertain litigation.

Tight oil companies have made the case that through increased efficiency and lower service costs that their economics are better at lower oil prices today than they were at $ 90 per barrel prices a few years ago.

They left the U.S. in search of a better climate and a lower cost of living What they found in Ecuador was something much more... Dear International Living Reader, Just a few short years ago, things weren't looking too good for Read more...: 2017 Fast Track Ecuador Recordings

Isn't it more likely the RSUs from a few years ago (when goings were good for engineers) will now have been fully vested by end of 2017?

Second, Maine has better solar irradiation than Germany, which until a few years ago had the most solar deployed of any nation on Earth.

A few years ago, your best bet would have been to bury your nose in the Internet and read as much reliable information as you could get your hands on.

Well, we had a tornado in Kansas a few years ago,»» Hoagland said, imagining what a lawmaker might say.

We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.

They eventually were taken over by a Canadian firm (well, the Canadian assets anyway) a few years ago some time after a Veco executive was secretly filmed in a hotel room bribing some Alaska gov» t officials.

A few years ago I went to a Constant Contact seminar and the verdict on the best times to send an e-mail was on Tuesday between 11:30 - 1:30, and then Wednesday from 11:30 - 1:30.

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

Still, with historically low rates still available, today's homeowners are getting cash - out rates well below no - cash - out rates of just a few years ago.

Few years ago, i received a financial investment advice from one of my mentors and today, that advice is the best financial investment advice i have ever received.

And that happened a few weeks ago when Jeremy Grantham said, «You are looking at the best prices in 20 years, and you should be making 7 % to 8 % to 9 % real (inflation - adjusted) returns.

The world is only going to need more oil & gas and prices are still well below what they were a few years ago.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

Only a few years ago, unemployment rates like this would have been seen as a good outcome in strong times, let alone in times of economic weakness.

When a term becomes viral, as the term buyer persona did just a few short years ago, it can lose its» original meaning as well as association with its origin and the professional foundation under which it originated.

Nevertheless, the gain left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have held for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed wants to see before lifting benchmark borrowing costs.