Sentences with phrase «half ago»

«I'm a real believer in being clear on who your monster is, who the enemy is, really helps with briefs and communication,» said Nowlan, who joined Tim Hortons about a year ago after six years at Molson Coors Canada and before that Kraft Foods Group.

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The world is flat, make that flatter, compared to just a couple of decades ago.

... to say nothing of an African, or someone living decades ago.

Launched about a year ago, Diveboard's free, multi-platform (web, iPhone, Android) social media and e-commerce service lets diving enthusiasts easily record and share their diving memories.

One of the first things I noticed about Apple Watch when I initially laid hands on it 7 months ago was the design.

In an average class not long ago, 95 % of Woodford's students wore Lululemon, she says.

The median household income in Canada is about $ 70,000, roughly 10 per cent more than a decade ago, according to census figures released last month.

Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

Almost a decade ago — before Twitter even existed, before Facebook hit the mainstream, before Snapchat and Instagram and Vine — CNN launched an ambitious venture called iReport.

They'll remember you as the one who helped them years ago.

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

A few years ago our area had a major windstorm that knocked out power for many days.

Bierman founded the business five years ago with his partner, who works in IT.

The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

Several years ago, Gmail introduced a feature that automatically sorted mail into «important» and «unimportant» folders.

Three years ago, U.S. Navy SEALs staged a daring raid into Pakistan, where they caught and killed the world's most - wanted terrorist.

And the parent company's 2017 forecast suggested little relief was coming for a brand that not long ago could do no wrong.

American Airlines said it spent $ 412 million more on fuel in the recent first quarter than in the year - ago period.

That's up six percentage points from three years ago.

Remember the good old days — like, three years ago — when the markets loved Lulu?

«You're able to get talent now that you couldn't get years ago,» he says.

MusclePharm sales are smaller than they once were, but we're a much stronger company than we were a few years ago.

Elkins is originally from the San Francisco Bay area but took the digital nomad route a few years ago and now lives in Tel Aviv.

As a result, most of today's sought - after professions didn't exist just a decade ago!

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that launched only two years ago, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices.

Jimmy is a 3D - printed robot, «born» about a month ago, with open - source code, available for updates, personalization and iteration.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Orascom's founder, said publicly a year ago he regretted starting a carrier in Canada, partly owing to Ottawa's failure to amend what he regarded as archaic foreign - ownership restrictions.

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

«I think we're not closer to war than a week ago, but we are closer to war than we were a decade ago,» National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday on ABC News.

Two years ago, Ben Kaufman, then - CEO of well - funded consumer product startup Quirky, delivered one of the most awkward, and candid, on - stage interviews I've ever witnessed at Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference.

Just several months ago, however, Trump was touting Broadcom's return to the United States as an example of a Fortune 100 company bringing back jobs to the country.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

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.

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

WHEN Ryan Stokes claimed to be launching Australia's first 4G communications network at a function of 550 business people two weeks ago it was an easy sell.

A few years ago, each new flagship release from competing manufacturers seemed to herald some amazing new wizardry: app stores, amazing cameras, fingerprint sensors!

Since starting CALM as an upstart, bicycle - mounted weed delivery service 17 years ago, the 41 - year - old has served roughly 4,000 customers and become one of Toronto's biggest ganjapreneurs.

This is not without justification: many predicted years ago Asian state - owned enterprises would soon be shopping Canada in earnest, yet Ottawa did little to prepare.

If you go back a decade ago, even the term entrepreneur is a dirty word.

The rules were set six years ago when...

How many of these businesses would've succeeded as brick - and - mortar shops just 20 years ago?

But four years ago, the last time the two major parties debated on the national stage, video was not a major component of social media.

Fifteen years ago, we didn't know what «Cyber Monday» was, but now it's an important piece of holiday shopping (maybe as important as Black Friday to some people).

The machine could be a successor to Google's own Chromebook Pixel 2, which was discontinued almost a year ago, but other manufacturers could have a hand in its development as well.

DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

«We established a long time ago that large quantities of oil and oil products from territory captured by Islamic State have been arriving on Turkish territory,» Putin continued.