Sentences with phrase «less than a year before»

Less than a year before that, another UAE - owned firm took control of the Berbera port in the breakaway northern region of Somaliland and pledged up to $ 440 million to develop it.

Uber concluded the year with about $ 6 billion in cash, 13 percent less than the year before.

But this is the first time that I find myself respecting Mr. Buffett a little bit less than the year before.

Ms. Cusanelli served as Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation for less than a year before an Olympic travel spending scandal led to her demotion to the backbencher.

The park district measure then died in the Senate, and the O`Hare bill was left in limbo in the House, giving Washington significant twin victories less than a year before he seeks a second term.

Clark's daughter, born less than a year before the robbery, is 36.

Florida statutes require candidates to switch parties no less than a year before the start of qualifying.

Walsh, 48, of East Islip was arrested on felony criminal mischief charges in 1989, less than a year before he applied to work for the sheriff's office.

On transit, he said the next mayor must start a public conversation about how to improve the current funding scheme for the cash - strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he ran for a little less than a year before stepping down to campaign for mayor.

Cuomo's relationship with Hinton and Glaser turned sour after she took the job as de Blasio's press secretary, a gig she held for less than a year before going back into the private sector.

Teachout, who moved to Dutchess County from Brooklyn less than a year before she announced her bid, beat out Columbia County farmer Will Yandik in a primary for the party's nomination.

(c) Whenever the meeting of the entire Association is held sufficiently close to the geographic boundaries of the Division, the Executive Committee may order the substitution of such meeting for the next following annual meeting of the Division; provided, however, that such order shall be the result of a unanimously favorable vote of all members of the Executive Committee and shall be announced no less than a year before the meeting of the entire Association.

Jul. 20, 2016 — A microscopic analysis of quartz crystals from an ancient California super-eruption indicates that the process of decompression preceding the eruption took place less than a year before.

I grow up in East Africa, spent 14 years in Switzerland, then moved to NY where i spent a bit less than a year before relocating definitely to Sydney.

Mildred's teenage daughter, Angela (Kathryn Newton, in flashback), died less than a year before, raped and then set on fire; the scorched place where her body burned is still visible; Mildred is seething at the lack of progress in the case and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of the local police chief, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who, while understandably unhappy with the 40 - foot - high attacks on his character, is not unsympathetic to Mildred's pain.

«It was Thursday, June 16, 1966... Less than a year before, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act... Stokely Carmichael was now in Mississippi to ensure that the federal laws... would apply to black sharecroppers living in plantation communities...

The superhero craze has been about escapism since 2002, when Spider - Man, New York's superhero, debuted on the big screen to charm an America that had been ravaged by the events of September 11, less than a year before.

Indeed, less than a year before the Coleman Report's release, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K — 12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4 billion.

Then performance was crap and decided that they put two turbochargers less than a year before production.

Jeffries» husband did some research and discovered the 2001 Jaguar had been in a head - on crash less than a year before Jeffries bought it in 2002.

This big of an update is somewhat surprising given the fact the Kindle Touch was on the market for less than a year before being replaced by the Kindle Paperwhite.

Even assuming HarperCollins pushed to get the book out as quickly as it could, I doubt they had the book for less than a year before publishing it.

The Bank of Montreal's annual TFSA survey found respondents contributed an average of $ 4,592 into their accounts last year — $ 939 less than the year before.

Others say that the box lasted less than a year before needing replacement.

The attack at Pearl Harbor had happened less than a year before and World War Two was raging across the globe.

MoMA QNS had begun its brief life less than a year before, and «Matisse Picasso» was creating the unthinkable, lines to see art in Queens.

Opened less than a year before, the institution — which focused on programmes by underrepresented, intersectional artists — drew fire over revelations concerning the real estate deal done by its building's anonymous owner.

Completed in 1986, less than a year before Warhol's untimely death, these haunting self - portraits have been championed as some of Warhol's most iconic paintings.

Are Latin America and the north, as the Guggenheim put it in a group show less than a year before, «Under the Same Sun»?

The self - portrait by Anthony Van Dyck — the last one he created, less than a year before his death — will be the centrepiece of the exhibition.

She received a scholarship to Bard College but was there less than a year before being suspended for «moral turpitude,» for painting a series of nude self - portraits — never mind that she'd been encouraged to model nude for the male students.

A loss of 360 gigatons translates into a 1 millimeter rise in sea level, therefore the 2013 - 2014 sea level rise should be 1.3 mm less than the year before.

Less than a year before the exchange of song and dance around the acacia fire, I had the chance to be in another nearby encampment.

The bracing analysis of what needs to left in the ground comes less than a year before a UN climate summit in Paris next December to complete a global agreement on limiting emissions.

The college bases its predictions on the Law Society's LPC enrolment figures, which forecast that the number of students passing the LPC in 2010 — 11 will be about 4,405 (28 % less than the year before) while there will be about 4,591 traineeships.

The following year your premium will increase because the life expectancy for you one year later is less than the year before.

With less than a year before the Google Pixel and Pixel XL are replaced, many are eager to see what the search engine giant will be doing with the successors to these phones as it looks to bolster its position as a top smartphone seller beside the likes of Apple and Samsung.

Formal consultations are due to begin with Indigenous health services in June — less than a year before the new national screening regime begins, and five years since the changes to the program were first mooted.

In 1997, the trend reversed: counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers all reported making less than the year before, with only marriage and family therapists reporting an increase.

And in Brooklyn (Kings County), which has changed from downscale to upscale and pricy in recent years, the population grew by 16,000 in 2015 — 5,000 less than the year before and the smallest increase of the past decade.

At this rate, it'll be less than a year before I collect my full $ 6,000 judgment.

Toys «R» Us sold the bonds in October 2016, less than a year before it filed for bankruptcy.

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Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam earned 5.3 % less last year than he did the year before — a mere 9.7 million Swiss francs ($ 10.26 million) for 2017 — thanks to shareholder pressure.

To take advantage, you must have an export credit sales volume of less than $ 5 million in the past three years before application, your company must qualify as a small business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net worth.

This year Berkshire Hathaway ranks higher than ever before, yet the holding company is less about Warren Buffett than it ever was.

While the dollar figure dipped in 2008, First Data, a retail tracking service, found that shoppers actually bought more gift cards than the year before; they just loaded less money onto them.

«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.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

Wellard shares were hammered for a second time in less than a week, with the company warning of yet another potential profit hit before the end of the financial year.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.