Sentences with phrase «many years before»

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy met sometime in the early»80s and dated on and off for 15 years before deciding to tie the knot.

Revenue in 2016 was $ 18.29 billion, up from $ 18.2 billion in 2013, the last year before he took over.

A good indicator: The number of companies represented at this year's TechDay NYC doubled from the year before.

One recent report estimated the size of that market at $ 34 billion in 2015, more than double its value the year before.

In a period of one year (2010 - 2011), the company saved 2.5 million sheets of paper, a 28 % drop in paper use from the year before, noted Laurence.

Frezza says it will be perhaps a year before they're ready to talk about it publicly.

That likely will be enough to allow the central bank to wait until at least early next year before it adjusts interest rates.

The BlackBerry had been entrenched in the corporate world in North America for years before the company actively courted consumers, whereas it was already equipped with consumer - oriented features such as music and social networking capabilities when it entered new markets more recently.

Wages in the U.S. rose 2.5 percent in 2017 from the year before, according to the latest nonfarm payrolls data released last week.

It would take a few years before Twitter's true power became clear, but its role in everything from political movements to how companies market themselves is undeniable.

All states have different laws, but typically there's a limit to the number of vehicles you can sell each year before you're required to obtain a dealer's license.

For instance, if a 22 - year - old is just entering the workforce, she has more than 40 years before she retires.

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.

(Legere made $ 20 million in 2016 and $ 24 million the year before, according to T - Mobile's latest annual proxy filing.)

«She had been interested in literacy for years before she was First Lady and her interest continued after she left the White House.»

Coleman instead said that she and Boyle had been in Pakistan for about a year before they were rescued, but said they were held in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sales of records came in at of 9.2 million in 2014, a 52 percent rise from the year before, marking the highest level since SoundScan started tracking the data in 1991.

In 2014, the year before it began hemorrhaging cash during the infamous Hulk Hogan trial that eventually bankrupted it, Gawker Media pulled in $ 45 million in revenue.

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.

In 2016, Tim Hortons opened 200 new locations, up from 155 the year before, and Burger King opened 735, compared to 631 in 2015.

To begin with, the OECD data on value - added stops at 2011, several years before Elon Musk sold his first electric car.

In the tens of thousands of materials, Netanyahu claims, are details about the secret Project Amad which Iran operated for years before the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed in 2015.

Thanks to the recession, in 2009 consumers used coupons at a faster clip than they did the year before — the first increase in coupon redemption in 17 years, says a new study by Inmar Inc., a company that processes coupon transactions.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been severely constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have...

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

He did it in his recent Tesla master plan, referring to the low chance of success he knew he had when starting Tesla by citing the fact that Ford is the only U.S. car company to have avoided bankruptcy — knowledge he didn't have when he launched Tesla in 2003, six years before GM and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

«Most initiatives we undertake take 5 to 7 years before they pay any dividends for the company.»

Experts say it will be at least five years before a product is on the market.

That said, the appeals process is likely to take years before Apple and the European Commission can finally put the issue to rest, wrote RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani in a note to clients Tuesday.

Its capabilities had fallen behind those of Wal - Mart, which had the capacity to use a big chunk of its stores to help fill online orders a year before Target did.

Four years before he launched his company, Nesi reached out to a college friend, whose family had started AriZona Beverages, a billion - dollar company.

That was up 3.6 % from the year before and up 13.5 % from 2013.

Although high - end purchasing surged again by 2010, giving the retail side an operating profit of about $ 14 million for the year ending Jan. 31, 2011 (compared with a loss of $ 15.7 million the year before), Gannicott started to reconsider whether the retail game was worth it.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down.

«You are seeing more investors negotiating for [all kinds of] rachets this year than last year or the year before,» he says.

The automatic carbine, known as the M16, was first put into service in 1964, and was standard issue by 1969 — five years before Rigg predicted.

She took a gap year before medical school to volunteer at an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tsarnaev's attorneys have sketched for jurors how his immigrant family unraveled in the years before the bombings, with his mother and Tamerlan becoming deeply religious.

It'll be a few years before most of this startup cohort faces that sales talent shortfall.

In the five years before he joined the company, Vevers (who doesn't have a driver's license) took frequent Amtrak trips to deepest America, hitting vintage shops at stops along the way.

Previous CEO Paul Straus ran Home Hardware for 26 years, from 1988 to 2014, while Hachborn, who still keeps in close touch with company affairs, was in charge for the 24 years before that.

The number of people using the online room rental service on the continent rose by 143 percent to about 765,000 guests in 2016 from the year before, said Nicola D'Elia, the firm's Africa and Middle East chief.

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

Unlike Waterloo's program, you can't apply directly from high school — this program requires students to take a qualifying first year before specializing.

«True Romance» was released in 1993, one year after Tarantino's directorial debut, «Reservoir Dogs,» and one year before «Pulp Fiction» would make him the hottest filmmaker in Hollywood.

In the depths of the financial crisis in 2011, Brian Moynihan — who'd been the unexpected pick for CEO a year before — predicted that Bank of America would soon be earning well over $ 20 billion a year.

In fact corporate profits are a recognized long leading indicator, which means they usually peak at least a year before the economy as a whole.

He ran it for years before launching his own eponymous firm in 1978.