Sentences with phrase «just about a decade»

Started just about a decade ago, they are now a global name.

I've been competing in bodybuilding since about 2007, competing in powerlifting since about 2006, and being a personal trainer and coaching for those sports for just about a decade now.

It is just about a decade ago since they first met in college and now they are running their own PB&J family business together.

YouTube made its grand debut just about a decade ago and quickly led to the rise of many internet personalities, though most struggled to remain relevant for an extended period of time.

While Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet get a remake just about every decade, the tale of Prospero is not in the same league.

«Just about every decade, Cadillac designs a breakthrough car that becomes synonymous with the brand's character of the period, such as the 1938 60 Special, the 1959 lineup, the 1975 Seville and the 2003 Sixteen Concept,» said Clay Dean, Cadillac's global design director.

Not exact matches

Indeed, think about the ubiquity of certificates of participation — younger people have been rewarded for just showing up for things for decades.

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

«We should not just let it be about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top movie star who's worked in Bollywood for three decades, told Business Insider.

«Just about every good thing that's happened to me in the last decade of my career has been because of social media,» says Zapar, who claims to be «the most connected woman on LinkedIn.»

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

Many pundits pointed out that Microsoft, under Ballmer, has missed just about every major technology trend of the past decade, to the point where it is now largely irrelevant.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

on Silicon Valley for two decades, through good times and bad, and I felt as though I had heard just about everything.

For roughly the past two decades, I've read just about anything I can get my hands on in terms of professional and personal growth.

It's been decades of us just not doing anything about the gun legislation.

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

But [the increase in commodity prices] is just the beginning of the story, accounting for about one - half of the appreciation of our currency over the past decade.

It is a scary thought, but if we're going to be realistic about the decades ahead, we are just going to see more and more fires and we have to ensure our communities are as prepared as possible.»

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

The decade's overall average was 0.085 casualties per rocket (or about 12 rockets per casualty), but this fell from 0.1049 for 2005 — 2009 to just 0.0223 for 2010 — 2014.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

«It's been more than a decade since the Liberals starting making empty promises about Highway 1, to take just one example.

Gerardo D.: I've been involved in the resource space in one way or another for just a little over a decade, about 11 years now.

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, known as the «notwithstanding clause,» has just about acquired the status of a zombie law in recent decades, left largely untouched by legislatures (at least in the Rest of Canada).

As a result of what happened during just one of the past twenty decades (the 1970s), most people now believe that a large rise in «price inflation» or inflation expectations is needed to bring about a major rally in the gold price.

Elsewhere are the lyrics Jimi Hendrix wrote for the song «Machine Gun,» in their original form on hotel room stationary, and a letter that the FBI's Hoover wrote to former President Gerald Ford while Ford was still just a Michigan congressman, ranting about the MC5 while calling them «the house band of the radical White Panther Party» and complaining that music was fueling the decade's radical politics.

A man who was born just a few years after Christ died therefore holds no credibility in mentioning him; not to mention the dozens of people who wrote about him just decades after?

People were writing about Jesus just decades after he died and we still have the writings for that.

Simply moving the guilty towards fresh young meat in new parishes for decades can not be ignored just because other Catholics are tired of hearing about it.

«We just don't talk about it — it's real,» Gaskins asserts, adding that the company has given more than $ 6 million to local charities near its stores in the past decade.

Moist and nutty favoured bread, rye bread, speltotto, nordic crisp bread and oat pancakes — just to mention a few things;) The asian kitchen rocks — but when it comes to whole and fibre rich grains they are about a decade or two behind of us!

Nothing about that has changed but the sharing of it, either at a friend or relatives», or just spontaneously going out to eat, has shifted dramatically in the last decade as I began to develop more tactics for avoiding eating with others, or later, when I realized many of my health problems were attributed to food intolerances, and most friends and family no longer knew how to prepare food that was gluten, dairy, and for the most part meat - free.

Nationwide, that's about 460 per capita — up from 300 per capita just a decade ago.

I used to hate seafood growing up, but in the last decade or so, I've come to love just about any type of seafood (except oysters — it's not a taste thing, it's a texture thing.

The basis of this recipe comes from my dear Grandma Bess's own recipe card collection, although I see just about the same simple recipe over scads of decades.

For about a decade, Halliday - Sharp juggled motor racing and three - day eventing, but just this year she decided to make training and competing her horses the priority.

It's probably just a getting - older thing, anyway, Lee has been on my mind a lot over the last decade, and I'm always eager to talk about him.

It feels like if I didn't say anything — if I ran out of the room right then, sobbing — he'd just tidy up a few papers on his desk and go back about his job of being Barry Alvarez, the former Badgers head coach who took Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls after decades of irrelevance, then signed the check for his own bronze statue as the school's athletic director.

Just don't think about how their keystone combination is still impossibly young and otherworldly and how they'll be around for the better part of the decade, because that's extra scary, too.

excuses aside, who did not know that arsenal were just participants rather than competitors in any of this competitions??? let us not pretend that we are surprised about all that has happened because it has been happening for the last decade including poor decisions of the ref -LCB- do not know whether it is bad luck] the last transfer window will haunt us dearly going forward... most pple here were taking a swipe at manure for buying martial and using it to justify our inactivity!!!

As usual at this time of year the long - suffering Arsenal supporters start protesting about Arsene Wenger's lack of trophies over the last decade, and just like every other season, Wenger and the Board just shrug it off as a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fans.

As you know its not just being injury free it's about the right amount of maturity at the right time and about players really believing in the squad, we have tat no for the first time in a decade but we are still short, you can't tell m that you do nt suspect that here won't be any more major signings because it's the demon at the back of every Arsenal fans mind, I mean its not like its not happend before is it?

As reported by Sky Sports the German, whose team last season condemned Wenger and the Gunners to a first year without Champions League football in two decades by just a single point, spoke about his respect for the Frenchman and gave his thoughts on the calls from Arsenal fans for him to be replaced.

Just 10 months after Oklahoma State marked the decade anniversary of the deaths of 10 members of its men's basketball team's traveling party in a plane crash, school president Burns Hargis welled up last Friday as he addressed the media about OSU's «worst nightmare.»

Personally this past decade and a half I've had just about enough of that righteous inept dinosaur.

He has NO excuses and has been desperately blaming fans now, yet he still get's defended for achieving just about nothing in over a decade.

No wonder every ex-Wenger player only has good things to say about their former boss, because we know he barely even shouts at anyone, gives them too much freedom on the pitch, and gives players almost limitless opportunities to impress, even if that means keeping a player at the club for decade just to get one or two good seasons out of them.

The Tigers had gone just 14 - 9 in Danny Ford's first two seasons, and while there was some optimism — they had their most experienced team in years, and Clemson fans are always optimistic about the coming year — they had only finished ranked twice in two decades, and they were unranked to begin the year.