Sentences with phrase «hand years ago»

I've got a physical copy I bought 2nd hand years ago from gamestation and I just bought it on xbox live like the article suggests I do.

This piece is a perfect example of how some of the best items are often those we now call vintage — pieces crafted by hand years ago with careful precision by an expert craftsman.

As the Mail reported at the weekend, Mr Lyon has also just passed on his file on the complaint made by Tory MP Greg Hands a year ago about Gordon Brown's failure to declare his subletting of part of a constituency office to his local Labour Party.

So I was quick to raise my hand a year ago when Eric, started an email conversation with more than a dozen climate bloggers and journalists about developing some kind of regular conversation.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

On the other hand, a few years ago my trash overflowed with food packaging and I didn't know what composting meant.

On the other hand, increasing the minimum to that amount two years ago might have cost the economy about 500,000 jobs, or 0.3 percent of the workforce, by 2016, the CBO found.

The second - hand car business was revolutionised 20 years ago with the arrival of the internet, but there is a second revolution under way that promises to be even more disruptive and could have a significant effect on some of Western Australia's best - known car yards.

Two years ago, at the Venture Capital Challenge organized by the famous Silicon Valley VC Draper Fischer Jurveston, the hands - down winner of the $ 250,000 prize was a new sleep - monitoring gizmo called NeuroVigil.

As a marriage counselor years ago, Neil Clark Warren saw first - hand how incompatibility led to unhappy matches.

(This goal is considerably less gruesome than the one he set a few years ago, when he resolved to eat meat only from animals he killed with his own hands.)

Facebook has said that it was notified years ago that its users» data was in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, and that it followed up to demand it be deleted.

On the other hand, Twitter seemed even more useless when it launched five years ago, albeit with a lot less money than Color has.

A year ago, he moved to Prague where his wife landed a job as a diplomat, and found he had far too much time on his hands.

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.

«My biggest regret is that we didn't hand back marketing three or four years ago,» Bitove says.

It was only some years ago when Elon was struggling in his personal and professional lives and was almost with empty hands having nothing in his bank accounts.

On the other hand, Barclays could see a 4 percent decline in third - quarter pre-tax profits from a year ago period when it releases results on Thursday, Investec said.

For instance, HSBC gave the Chinese yuan 4/10 for aggressiveness in 2013, down from 6/10 a year ago, as the People's Bank of China becomes increasingly «hands off» and moves the yuan towards convertibility.

Forty years ago, an American decathlete named Bruce Jenner won gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympic games and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, his hands in the air and a victorious smile on his face.

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

Doing so suggests there is only limited evidence that hominin toolmakers working more than 2 million years ago were primarily right - handed.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

One day about three years ago, I watched a mobile gaming developer, Oded Ben Dov, demonstrating a hands - free video game on TV.

Thirty years ago, a riot at Peterhead Prison, Scotland, got so out of hand that British special forces had to intervene with smoke bombs and stun guns.

And by the time a species called Homo heidelbergensis had appeared, perhaps around 600,000 years ago, there was a clear right - handed preference in prehistoric societies.

More than 30 years ago, researchers Robert Gifford, Cheuk Fan Ng and Margaret Wilkinson found that, among other aspects, job candidates who used more hand gestures in their interviews were more likely to get hired.

Five years ago, Erin Lau, a writer and former event - planner, couldn't speak in public without a red face and trembling hands.

«Holding in one's hands the very same print that had been personally edited by Orson Welles 75 years ago provokes an emotion that's just impossible to describe.»

As recently as six years ago, when Wadhwa would ask his foreign - born students whether they planned to stay in the United States, almost all would raise their hands.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.

There have been a number of proposals and ideas for doing it and I think unless [Zuckerberg] finds a way to honor the promise he made several years ago, he's gonna have a law on his hands.»

When you read news sites like Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable and see penalties handed out left & right for things that seemed generally white hat just a few years ago, you can't help but think «maybe what I've thought for so long that's completely white hat is targeted next?»

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.

Buy as little house as you can (the opposite advice that people were handing out 10 years ago), and put the extra in the stock market.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

What started out many years ago as a blind person having a seeing - eye dog has gotten totally out of hand.

On the one hand, we have the advice given by one of the managing directors of Tweedy Browne to a client that held $ 30 million in Berkshire Hathaway stock many years ago.

Thirty - two years ago, three psychologists published a paper «On the Misperception of Random Sequences» — also known as the «hot - hand fallacy.»

The helping hand from censors is in stark contrast to Baidu's woes two years ago, when regulators cracked down on its advertising practices, gutting its marketing client base and bringing its revenue growth to a grinding halt.

Since opening its doors two years ago, MaRS has provided hands - on advisory services to more than 250 science and technology entrepreneurs, while thousands of students and young innovators have participated in entrepreneurship educational programs.

If that random guy you friended freshman year of college or two jobs ago played a lot of games on Facebook, he could unwittingly be handing over his friends» information — including yours.

Sales of homes worth more than $ 3 million fell 58 per cent between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28 with just 76 properties changing hands, compared to 180 transactions during the same period a year ago, according to a report by Re / MAX Integra.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

I recall having some of these discussions with friends years ago, sitting in Starbucks with $ 3 coffees in our hands, and deriding anyone involved in any form of spiritual endeavor who may make a profit.

On the other hand, I met a little three year old girl a few weeks ago named Harley.

I first felt the keen edge of the feminist critique many years ago at the hands of two exceedingly able and determined women who often shared a pew and a hymnbook in services at the church where I was pastor.

... up to 20 - 30 years ago some of socalled western nations were ruled by dictators... like East - Germay hand half of Europe...

I was looking for a place to share this... our church many years ago was going through all this legalism stuff... I heard this from a friend of mine because by the time it all blew open we had stopped going to church... One guy was always trying to say something «wise» so he shared with the group that the other day as he was showering it occurred to him that «the hand washes the body» and repeated it slowly — theee haaaand waaaasheeees the bodeeeee» — My friend took it home with a «meh» reaction and shared it with her non-believing hubby....