Sentences with phrase «had just»

Her three - shot lead had just been wiped out by a four - shot penalty.»

Though Apple had just released its fifth - generation iPod, the Zune offered some unique features: a built - in FM radio receiver, and a Wi - Fi connection that meant Zune users could swap tunes with one other (unofficially dubbed «squirting» to the delight of reviewers).

Jay, the eldest of the group, said that he had just come along as «the driver,» but that he was starting to come around to Paul's message.

Barry and Honey Sherman's real estate agent found the couple dead in the basement of their property, which they had just put up for sale for $ 5.4 million (# 4 million).

I once had to present in front of a bunch of investors who had just heard from a Nobel Laureate who was trying to cure cancer, and I was up next talking about funny things on the internet.

She was broke and had just accepted a $ 1,000 loan to start her own real estate company.

It was 1997, and the headstrong trader had just launched a new hedge fund backed by a proprietary computer program that he believed could cut through the chaos of the market and reveal truths invisible to the rest of Wall Street.

He had just been fired from the previous startup he co-founded, SigFig (originally called Wikinvest).

Rutan had just received a $ 10 million check for building the real thing and sending it to space.

We'll be tuning in to see the next great solution to a problem we never knew we had just like we did last season.

But the experience inspired him to launch the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults in 1997, which is how, as the oft - told story goes, he came to be discovered by Armstrong, another young cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

«That was a moment that I had just always held dear to me,» Johnson said.

A Wasson confidant who had been well regarded, Miquelon had just stepped down, in a planned retirement.

The startup had just landed $ 1 million in funding from Spark Capital when its TechStars program began, and the company went on to land $ 5 million more shortly after the program aired.

Waugh and Mayberry would be in China, where the bank had just set up a joint venture with Bank of Beijing, when Waugh's BlackBerry buzzed with a message: Lehman had failed.

It was a Wednesday in October 2012, and Ulman, CEO and president of the Livestrong Foundation, had just received the inevitable news he had been dreading for months: The United States Anti-Doping Agency's long - awaited and damning report, which concluded once and for all that Lance Armstrong, the cancer charity's founder and chairman, was guilty of doping during his legendary cycling career.

The Providence, R.I., manufacturer of medical devices had just signed a licensing agreement with watch manufacturer Timex to design and market digital thermometers carrying the Timex brand.

In 1997, Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple, the company he had been ousted from over a decade before.

Stanton then posted a job opening for a Canadian equity analyst — the same position Quenneville had just been dismissed from.

We were all in the hospital after my mother had just completed a minor surgery, and from what I could recall there was a lot of tension between him and the president & CEO of the company.

In late 1972, Jobs had just started at Reed College, an elite liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon.

He had just flown in from London.

Goldman remembered the idea and called Nalebuff, who had just written a case study about the Tata Tea company in India.

According to the insurer's 2017 annual report, it had just under $ 5 billion of net par exposure to Puerto Rico paper, including $ 1.5 billion to the island's General Obligation bonds, as of Dec. 31, 2017.

«We then had just two data points,» Thompson stresses — two vehicles from a fleet of thousands.

She had just decided that being a prostitute would be a better job than trying to claw her way up the corporate ladder.

Most of that coal is American and U.S. President Donald Trump had just levied tariffs on Canadian lumber.

Before Intel's money, Cloudera had just closed a chunk of funding from T. Rowe Price, Google Ventures, and Michael Dell's family office, valuing the company at $ 1.8 billion.

Before she knew it, she was out of the water trying to explain to her boyfriend what had just happened.

In 2013, J.P. Morgan & Co. had just been ordered to pay a multibillion - dollar settlement stemming from the financial crisis, and it was seeking to reconnect with consumers via a Twitter Q&A.

During a Reddit AMA last year, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder told readers that he had just spent his weekend watching his daughter ride horses and enjoying some old - fashioned fun.

My client, I'll call him Jason, had just landed two of his largest accounts ever and this turn of events, he was convinced, left him doomed to failure.

Weeks passed with no answers and no results and then amazingly a statement arrived from one of my long - dormant bank accounts saying that a whole boatload of money had just appeared in the account.

I had just mentioned how my coffee cake was stale — maybe it had sat out for too long.

Scott had just wrapped up delivering a presentation about Google's AdSense business to Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt.

To those who fear the creep toward a two - tier health - care system, Centric chairman Jack Sheval points out that we've long had just such a system in our lengthy, open border with the United States.

We had just gotten through a successful tax season when the unthinkable happened: The youngest of our three children, 4 - year - old Nicholas, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissue.

The same hand - wringing commentators who were themselves drinking artisanal beer out of mason jars only yesterday now bemoan Brooklyn's discovery as if the tanks had just rolled into Prague.

Kevin had just invested in more vehicles and a bigger premises to handle his own work load from the same large retailer.

The remnants of the storm which had lashed the South Pacific brought cloud cover and heavy rains to the region, cooling the ocean enough to stop bleaching that had just begun in the south.

She was 23 and had just started her first year as a high school English teacher.

This energy consulting company, which works with businesses to manage energy use and supply tailored renewable solutions, had just six employees as of last year — but made a whopping $ 5.1 million in revenue.

It was from the very beginning of August when my son had just turned one.

«No, I get that,» Cowell acknowledged, as if his own burlesque tassels had just gotten tangled the other day.

«The bravest thing I've seen Hugh do was stare down eight to 10 weeks out of the very first Global Citizen festival (with) a sponsor who had just fallen over (and) an artist bill that wasn't complete and have him say: «We can still do this.»

Hatem, who had just finished an MBA program, sold his Subway franchises and came aboard to handle finances and operations.

So when the time comes to dispose of it for good, the reported capital gain will be bigger than if the investor had just bought and held.

This particular story gave me involuntary eyebrow twitches because a friend of mine had just endured a recent experience with another well - known car rental company.

Eight years ago, Adam Lowry and Neil Renninger were sitting in a bar, discussing the conference they had just attended, when both admitted they were jealous of each other's careers.

Delegating a task, only to nitpick every detail and every choice your coworker makes while executing that task, will only frustrate your coworker and make you busier than you would have been had you just tackled the task yourself.