Sentences with phrase «less a year ago»

I still pay for books, and I'm paying ridiculously jacked up prices for ebooks that were a lot less a year ago.

We don't do things like we did five years ago, much less a year ago.

Not exact matches

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

So two years ago, she created a mentorship program that pairs new hires with a master technician, enabling Bell to focus her candidate selection on less skilled, but enthusiastic, learners.

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

That was less clear four years ago, but Couture had faith in his hunch.

Less than two years ago, men's clothing sales made up just 8 % of Lululemon's revenues.

A little over five years ago, Joel Young found himself in a situation many American families are facing: He was deeply in debt with a less than stable job and young children to provide for.

Without Potash Corp. and its 44 % drop from a year ago, those using this screen would have finished the year more or less whole.

What's far less certain, of course, is whether the go - go members of the next Canadian establishment will be exposed to the sort of tech bubble meltdown that waylaid a generation of dot - com entrepreneurs 15 years ago.

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

In Monaco and New York, $ 1 million buys 1 less square meter than it did a year ago.

Less than a year ago, King — the executive that doubled sales of the company's TaylorMade - Adidas Golf business in the span of a decade — was appointed president of the company's North America business.

It was 35 % as of the end of 2015, up from less than 5 % a year ago, according to Fitch.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

Among other changes at the firm, Jon Rubinstein, who joined the company less than a year ago, will step down from his co-CEO position.

Despite inflation making our lives more expensive every year, people in these 10 occupations are actually earning less, on average, than they were half a decade ago.

In fact, according to a 2013 survey, 43 percent of small business owners are taking less vacation time than five years ago.

«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

(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.)

Separate data showed retail sales fell 0.1 % in October from a year ago, less than the median estimate for a 1.2 % annual decline and less than a 1.7 % annual decline in the previous month.

It was less than a year and a half ago that Reddit finally banned some of its most violently racist, borderline - child - porn - y communities.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

Quantopian's founder and chief executive John Fawcett said its membership has surged to 60,000 from 35,000 less than a year ago, while QuantConnect's founder and CEO Jared Broad saw a jump in its membership to 17,000 from 6,000 a year earlier.

After opening its doors less than three years ago, Coscarelli's recipes, which include a drool - inducing «Guac Burger» and «Chlostess Cupcake» (like Hostess» famed chocolate cupcakes, but without any dairy), have found fans among vegans and non-vegans alike.

Not surprisingly, binge - watching is also less frowned upon, with only 30 % of respondents reporting a negative view of binge - viewership (there would appear to be some self - loathers in that bunch) compared to two years ago, when more than half of respondents felt the term «binging» had negative connotations.

Less than one - fifth of Western Australians are deemed to be financially fit, while the majority feel less financially secure than they did a year ago, according to a report by BankwLess than one - fifth of Western Australians are deemed to be financially fit, while the majority feel less financially secure than they did a year ago, according to a report by Bankwless financially secure than they did a year ago, according to a report by Bankwest.

In the U.S. today, the number of publicly listed companies is less than half of what it was 20 years ago.

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

Less than a year ago conglomerate General Electric Co combined its oilfield business with Baker Hughes, creating the second largest oilfield services company by revenue.

BlackBerry launched the Classic less than two years ago, hoping it would resonate with customers yearning for a physical keyboard in a world of touchscreens.

They were forced by law to begin providing fee disclosures less than five years ago.

When you consider how much less searchable the internet was 20 years ago, that's a fair assertion.

Although it only opened its first retail space less than two years ago, Glossier, Emily Weiss's millennial - friendly blog - turned - beauty brand has become the talk of the cosmetic industry.

«The large majority of individual major events — ranging from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 100 years ago through to 9/11 and recent events in Iraq and Ukraine — impact major stock markets by around 10 % or less, with the effect being fully reversed within a month or so,» he wrote in a note to clients.

There was a time, less than two years ago, when women seemed poised to overtake men and become the majority of the American workforce.

He also indicated it would be something people wouldn't be embarrassed to wear in public — a nod of recognition to the fact that people were less than comfortable interacting with others wearing Google Glass, the futuristic head - mounted computer system that Google created a few years ago.

Deficits will probably reach $ 1 trillion in the current or next fiscal year, almost double what the Congressional Budget Office had projected less than a year ago for 2018.

Less than a year ago, the school received a $ 50 million naming gift from alumnus and long - time retailing giant Allen Questrom and his wife, Kelli.

In other words, BofA is now worth $ 50 billion more than it was two years ago — and Wells is worth $ 50 billion less.

The Silverdome, a massive stadium about a half - hour north of Detroit, had sat empty for more than four years and had only reopened less than 12 months ago.

A similar exclusion zone had to be set up less than three years ago, when a German bomb was found in an East London building site.

The DHP Rosedale Metal Canopy Bed Frame has a 4.4 - star rating based on 27 customer reviews, which isn't a ton, but we took into consideration that this model came out less than a year ago.

Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech companies, and medical device makers have given less money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's by this time four years ago.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Just less than 15 years ago business owners wondered if they really needed a website.

Less than two years ago, Sony launched the PlayStation 4 Pro, a more powerful update to the PlayStation 4.

New numbers from market research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, estimate that 8.2 million Echo units have been installed in the U.S. since the product became broadly available less than two years ago.