Sentences with phrase «growing years ago»

Noah Baumbach characters are almost always enduring growing pains, even if they stopped growing years ago.

A great baccatum bred from an accidental cross I grew years ago.

Not exact matches

Making parts and finished products using 3 - D printing technology has grown to account for 28 percent of all additive manufacturing activity, up from virtually zero 10 years ago, according to Wohlers.

But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.

That figure is expected to grow by $ 31 billion by 2015 - 16, handing the Progressive Conservatives ammunition in their assault on the Liberals, who've doubled the province's debt since they took office nine years ago.

After more than a decade growing the company, the Scheinbergs cashed out three years ago, selling to Amaya Gaming for $ 4.9 billion.

Growing up, Starbird helped to manage Hall & Rambo, his family's commercial insurance firm that launched roughly 110 years ago.

Since opening its doors 50 years ago, the Sunset Marquis has grown to include 52 detached, Mediterranean - influenced villas, two bars, two heated outdoor pools and even an underground recording studio, all interconnected by winding brick pathways that guide guests through the property's labyrinth of tropical gardens.

Bad debts were a problem until a few years ago, when the client base had grown to the extent that the company could afford to pick and chose.

A few years ago, we marveled at how the Inc. 500 — our annual ranking of America's fastest - growing private companies — sustained momentum during economic adversity.

Not because he knew me, but because the BDC had backed him five or six years ago, and now he's the CEO of this incredibly successful, rapidly growing company.

Chef's Cut grew from just $ 181,000 in revenue three years ago to more than $ 7 million last year.

For example, the paper's authors explain, investors who bought Pfizer five years ago have seen their shares appreciate by 80 percent, while investors who bought 25 years ago have seen their shares grow by six times (adjusted for splits).

Two years ago, Lou Hoffman, president of a $ 5 - million public - relations firm in Silicon Valley, was in the enviable position of being able to grow without necessarily adding new business, mostly because his high - tech clients were growing so quickly.

If you grew a beard two years ago and still have it to this day, let your profile picture represent that.

This software and analytics firm has grown from four employees three years ago to 200.

Add to that, the cost of health insurance premiums growing at four times inflation and workers changing employers far more often than they did 60 years ago, and you have a system that's going to break.

Slack took home two of four awards for which it was nominated at the 2016 Crunchies awards Monday, a surprise to no one who has followed the company as it has grown to nearly 2 million users since it launched two years ago.

The company reported one of its best quarters in years just over two weeks ago, touting its growing gross margins, new cloud offerings and steady legacy businesses.

West and Musk appear to have a growing friendship that started 3 years ago.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

Five years ago, as Vince's grew into a multi-store operation, the three partners started to rethink their strategic plan.

Had I started two years ago, my people would have grown much faster.

And the average engagement per post has grown by 416 percent, compared to two years ago.

Having grown Perth - based Navitas from a start - up 23 years ago into a global education services provider and one of WA's top 10 listed companies, co-founder Rod Jones is handing the reins to former iiNet boss David Buckingham.

«About a year ago, we noticed clients were asking more and more detailed questions about Social Security — there's been a growing media focus — and we realized that the answers weren't readily available in the marketplace,» he said.

Four years ago he submerged ten chairs and two tables so that they would grow a skin of coral («natural concrete») on their surfaces.

Since proposing the program two years ago, IPF executive director Andra Sheffer says the number of web series has grown from five or six total to 50 Canadian series.

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.

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

May 1 - Freddie Mac, the No. 2 U.S. mortgage finance company, said net income in the first quarter grew to $ 2.93 billion from $ 2.21 billion a year ago due to gains on its derivatives and growth in its apartments business.

This industry hardly even existed a year ago, yet there are already dozens of startups fighting for a piece of the growing market.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

So my first marketing job really was about seven years ago, and I grew my marketing chops at my previous job under the tutelage of a person I think is a great CMO, Connie Weaver.

They surround Querétaro — we're right in the middle of it,» says Fernanda Garfias, who launched the English - language website QueretaroToday.com three years ago to serve the city's growing English - speaking population.

It's interesting that OPEC is producing roughly the same amount of crude today as it was 30 years ago, while the global economy has grown tenfold.

But after the bust comes the boom: Expect soaring crude prices later this decade as demand from fast - growing Asia collides with greatly diminished supply — a classic bust - boom cycle with which the oil industry was all too familiar 100 years ago but may have forgotten since.

But shipments of Windows Phone devices grew 78 per cent to 8.7 million in the April - to - June period, compared with the same time a year ago.

The fast - growing company 1,051 employees only two and a half years ago.)

«In a scenario in which corporate prices returned to the same levels as four years ago, corporate revenues could grow 15 percent, driving a strong fundamental backdrop for the industry and an even better outlook,» added Didora.

Sonic's first quarter net income grew to $ 8.2 million, a 33 percent increase from $ 6.1 million a year ago.

A few years ago, land in the premium wine growing region of Burgundy in France for Grand Cru vineyards was going for around $ 5 million an acre.

As the government's own expert panel report on competition said five years ago, those same companies need to «take the puck to the other end of the rink» and start growing outward, internationally, before it's too late.

Voca's sales have grown 40 % to 50 % annually since Anderson began using street - marketing tools, four years ago.

According to research firm Nielsen, rosé table wine sales are now valued at more than $ 207 million annually, growing about 50 % from a year ago and outpacing the overall market's more modest 4 % increase.

It's enormous news for a startup that has grown from about 150 employees a year ago to more than 400 today.

Air Canada reported a smaller - than - expected loss in its first quarter as its revenue grew compared with a year ago, boosted by increased capacity and passenger traffic.

«Since first pioneering the vacation exchange concept more than 40 years ago, RCI has continually found new ways to evolve and grow its own business while also propelling the exchange industry further,» said Gordon Gurnik, president of RCI, in a statement.

I started Cutler PR six years ago, and we've grown significantly.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.