Sentences with phrase «in a couple of years ago»

Funny story: I was at a shareholder meeting for a company I'm heavily invested in a couple of years ago.

That could be us if we'd had the balls bring Klopp in a couple of years ago.

Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

The little vase in the corner was a dollar store find, and the artificial flowers are left from a wedding I was in a couple of years ago.

A friend of mine has a 124 Spider and did the Montecarlo Historic in it a couple of year ago.

You are earning no more than 1 % and my guess is the lowest debt interest rate would be over 3 % (home mortgage if you locked in a couple of years ago) and it would go up considerably from there (6 - 10 % for student loans and 18 % on credit cards).

Not exact matches

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

A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.

A couple years ago, Vox's German Lopez explained the rise of swatting in terms of the internet's broader trolling culture:

It started as a modest co-working space in a former bank branch just a couple of years ago to a large, well - managed space and business incubator.

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

The Roasterie, a 17 - year - old company in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, sent out a small price increase a couple months ago, according to Paul Massad, the company's director of supply chain and self - described «bean hunter.»

My father, Bernie, passed away a couple of years ago, and yet he lives on in so many practical life lessons that he taught me over the years.

A year ago, they relaxed for a couple of weeks in Mexico with a yacht, a captain, and four of Kanciar's friends.

A couple years ago, when Apple CEO Tim Cook started talking up Apple's services revenue — largely millions of tiny purchases of songs on iTunes and apps in Apple's App Store — critics assumed this was a smokescreen to distract from weakening hardware sales.

A couple of years ago, the Centenaris decided to invest roughly $ 1 million in the corrugator, the giant machine that turns big rolls of brown paper into the corrugated sheets that will eventually become boxes.

Until a couple of years ago, negative rates were largely seen as an academic experiment, likely to be seen in textbooks and economic research papers, but never actually in the real world.

It's a «myth that Jamie Dimon is a good risk manager,» she said, noting that a couple of years ago J.P. Morgan lost «hundreds of millions» due to speculative derivative trading in which they «monopolized the entire global coal market.»

«We have seen security go from, again what was a couple years ago 20 %, 25 % to consistently 40 % of the business,» Conte said at the time, as recorded in a transcript of the call on the finance site Seeking Alpha.

«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.

Only a couple of years ago, election reform in Canada was a discussion about civics.

A couple of years ago, the issue was brought into social media discourse in the world of money expert Clark Howard when Facebook readers responded to our post about a bar charging women 77 % of their tabs to highlight wage inequality.

CAROL LOOMIS: Questions continue to come in about the financing and working relationship that Berkshire formed with 3G a couple of years ago and this is one of those questions.

To be a real contrarian you would have had say 70 % of your equity in stocks a couple of years ago while the conversations about the stock market were generally positive and now you would have 110 % of your equity in stocks.

Just a couple of years ago, U-T's EBITDA reached about $ 27 million, so we can see difficulty of forecasting in this industry.

Because of this, I'm often asked about the latest trend in investing, whether it be years ago, gold and silver, the Greek Crash a couple years ago, or more recently, weed stocks and cryptocurrency.

Anyone who looks at nominal rates is not really looking under the hood, and it's the steep decline in real rates that's what's kept a lid on the Dollar, which is at a level that's no different than where it was a couple of years ago.

A couple of years ago, 8VC also quietly raised a late - stage «coinvest» fund that it closed with roughly $ 400 million in capital commitments, meaning its total assets under management are currently around $ 1.5 billion.

One of the speakers at a recent Exit Strategies workshop in Vancouver (a well - respected senior M&A lawyer) commented that up until a couple of years ago he'd rarely heard the term»M & A Advisor».

I am just the opposite of you Barb; I started investing in mutual funds decades ago and only started buying individual stocks a couple of years ago.

One of the things we learned when oil collapsed a couple of years ago was that there was a positive feedback loop embedded in declining oil prices.

Between the March and June surveys, plans for only one large development were placed on hold and only a couple of projects were downgraded; the stock of projects under consideration in June remained around the level of a year ago.

Because of this, I'm often asked about the latest trend in investing, whether it be years ago, gold and silver, the Greek Crash a couple years ago, or -LSB-...]

It breaks down to living expenses on 1 check and debt on other with a little bit left over for my 401k, which has about 15k or so in it after the hit i took from being laid off and losing the unvested employer match in the middle of our economic implosion a couple years ago.

As Draghi pledged that a decision on policy changes will be announced next month, Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management comments: «In many ways, the ECB can afford to leave investors «hanging», a situation that would not have been palatable a couple of years ago and an indication of the significant improvement in the fundamental backdroIn many ways, the ECB can afford to leave investors «hanging», a situation that would not have been palatable a couple of years ago and an indication of the significant improvement in the fundamental backdroin the fundamental backdrop.

This year, the members of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. accomplished something that would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago: they produced a feature - length motion picture...

I started this show as background noise a few years ago, not expecting much, and here we are 4 season in, and it's still one of my favorite shows, while I don't believe this season is as good as season 2 or maybe 3 as a whole, it has its high points, a couple of things fall a little flat, but no single episode failed in my opinion.

Nearly four years ago, the New York attorney general took a look at a couple of the big players in the third - party research space, Gerson Lehrman Group and Vista Research.

At the behest of a couple of fanatical Frenchmen, leading politicians suggest that the government of the U.S. should punish a French citizen for something he did in France fifty - three years ago.

A couple of thousand years ago (and really up until a few hundred years ago, or less than that even, in some fields) there was no explanation for lightning, thunder, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc..

Let me get this straight: You believe that a couple of thousand years ago an invisible man in the sky impregnated a virgin girl in the middle east, had a half - god / half - man son who traveled around doing magic tricks, and then rose from the dead and is now constantly watching all of us to see if we'll get pie in the sky when we die?

In Kenya, for example, there's drought coupled with the after - effects of the post-election violence a year ago.

A group of couples from my neighborhood in Pacific Palisades, California, men and women I've known for more than twenty years, got together for dinner a few months ago.

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

First, a couple of years ago when I went through a difficult time online I had to make a decision: stay in the game or quit.

Years ago, as I spoke farewells to those who had attended the last session of a particular inquirers class — the very meeting in which I sought to «close the deal» of bringing new members on board — I noticed that two young couples stayed behind, talking intently with each other.

Okay, okay, okay — i really shouldn't ask a guy who believes that russian excavators heard (and recorded) the voices of the damned from inside the Earth, but I got ta: You actually believe that some guy, and a few family members, a couple thousand years ago, built a boat big enough to put two of every kind of animal on the Earth in this boat?

Twenty people accused of being involved in the brutal killing of a Christian couple in Pakistan more than three years ago have been acquitted.

A couple of years ago I was invited to a small community in Nova Scotia, Canada that I fell in love with.

This is the same as someone a couple of hundred years ago saying that because all Christian religions had thus far been «young earth» in nature that Christianity and young - earthism are the same thing.