Sentences with phrase «long years ago»

Long years ago, I wrapped all my gifts in white paper and tied them up with red ribbon.

Don't know what I was thinking all those many long years ago but I would love to change those ugly ORANGE kitchen countertops to Giani White Diamond.

Seventeen long years ago, in 1997, just prior to my having stepped onto the federal scene here, a joint House - Senate committee presented to Parliament a report entitled «For the Sake of the Children».

First and foremost, you don't necessarily have to include it onto your resume if the incarceration period was long years ago, it was rather brief and for a minor crime.

I haven't laughed so much since I was told these many long years ago that an electronic circuit drawing was just as effective as one built out of transistors, capacitors and resistors.

«Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph's data.

Not the first, but the second Shining Force had its way with me those long years ago.

Debuting nine long years ago, the YG Entertainment flagship group has been consistently at the top of the K - Pop consciousness for a while, and has amassed quite a considerable reputation in the Western music world as well.

Andrew Ryan and his doomed vision of Rapture are arguably more relevant today than when BioShock first launched nine eight long years ago.

Fans of the original game elevated the female protagonist, Faith, to an iconic status since its release five long years ago.

Eight very long years ago, a German shepherd named «Bo Bear» disappeared from his family's California home.

You choose a name in a mad moment of inspiration 7 - 8 long years ago, and then some long time latter the potential consequences finally hit you...

Her mother offered reassuring stories of her own first trip as the captain's wife, long years ago, and of the wonders she had seen on the voyage to Callao and the Chincha Islands.

When I endorsed the «Dream Act» fourteen long years ago, I introduced «Alex,» the then - very - young lad whom my wife and I were helping to cope with some of the challenges of life in America for an entirely innocent victim of this country's wretchedly screwed up and inhumane immigration laws.

Yes, four long years ago, Checker Finn and I were still wedded to the «tight - loose» formula of federalism in education: Uncle Sam should be tighter on the outcomes expected from our schools but much looser on how states and districts achieve those ends.

My first postdoc position started almost three long years ago.

Even with the changes Arsenal should have no trouble disposing of Brighton, who we have beaten every time we have met them in this competition and, surprisingly, our last away FA Cup tie was at the same venue two long years ago.

Foster thought he'd be in the NBA by now after a breakout freshman season at Kansas State four long years ago.

It did end for me on the 22st of May11 long years ago when I got married in a Christian church..

Let each confess his sin and make it known one sacrifice sufficed long years ago to win

According to Barron's, he was 149 % short at the end of the first quarter compared with 25 % at the end of 2015 and 4 % net - long a year ago.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

«The things that worked a year ago, just six months ago, no longer serve us.»

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

«I look back on a long career and I think, Gee, 50 years ago we built this hotel, and it still is here.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

I went with Windows 7 a couple years ago and then realized that Outlook Express which I've used for 10 + years is no longer supported.

Owner Charles «Eric» Whitehead's grandparents owned cabins on the island many years ago, which have long since been sold.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Two more years of economic pain Australia faces a longer period of low growth, higher debt and higher unemployment than predicted just four weeks ago as the wave of job losses gathered strength, with clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands axing 1850 staff across the country.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

Strikingly for Agios and partner Celgene, the therapy was in human clinical testing not so long ago (there was just a three year gap between the first human studies and Agios» regulatory submission to the FDA).

And not wanting to lay fallow for long, just about two years ago, Harbortouch introduced yet another new feature that Isaacman believes has transformed the company.

One night long ago, my business partner Ed Moed and I tore up the town after being named PR Week's best small agency of the year.

My husband and I scheduled this trip to Hawaii about a year ago — long before the caucus dates were decided.

Nearly 40 years ago, before he became a popular action movie star and long before he began his political career, Schwarzenegger built his own bricklaying business alongside a friend and fellow bodybuilder.

It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now it's gotten frighteningly bigger, and it's no longer wise to ignore it.»

Years ago at a marketing conference, my friend Jonathan Long from Market Domination Media told me that «You're never going to please everyone, so don't try to be everything to everyone.

Now that wealthy second home buyers are returning to the southern tip of Long Island, they have noticeably different criteria than their predecessors of 10 or even five years ago.

Ali founded MobileLive five years ago in Richmond Hill, Ont., and the firm has since added over 250 employees, posted year - over-year revenue growth of 400 %, and won a long list of accolades and awards.

But somewhat lost in all of this business wheeling and dealing is the fact that the balance of power in medicine is shifting: Armed with their body's own endless stream of signals and a smartphone, many individuals are getting the information they need to take charge of their health and wellbeing — or, in the case of Theresa Beech, whose 13 - year - old son was lost to cancer two years ago, to help total strangers search for a long - elusive cure.

A few years ago, one of my colleagues spoke with a senior vice president of sales who recently had visited a satisfied long - time client.

Buffett wrote, «Bill Ruane - a truly wonderful human being and a man whom I identified 60 years ago as almost certain to deliver superior investment returns over the long haul - said it well: «In investment management, the progression is from the innovators to the imitators to the swarming incompetents.»

It's the kind of long - term thinking guys like Stephen used to enrich our economy 130 - odd years ago, and that smart leaders would do well to emulate today.

What became known as the «longest traffic jam ever» — a nearly two - week, 60 - plus mile gridlock — took place a few years ago, not in a huge Western metropolis, but in the northern China province of Hebei.

Others say the recent prices simply reflect the fact that digital currencies are a far more sturdy asset than they were two years ago, and their values can no longer be derailed by a bit of negative news.

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.

Equity investors are feeling very optimistic right now, even though the problems that plagued their thinking mere weeks ago are still there (last year the TSX fell over 11 % — was that so long ago?).

I've been in the business for 44 years and I learned long ago to focus on what you can control.

Eight years ago when Caroline had begun to outgrow the seats in traditional carts, Long realized how cumbersome it had become to manage a wheelchair and a cart in the store.