Sentences with phrase «more than a couple of years ago»

Since we moved into our beach house... hmmm, more than a couple of years ago now... my daughter's room has remained very much unfinished.

Not exact matches

The pessimists have more reason for confidence than they did a couple of years ago, but the jury is still out.

For more than a decade, the yellow metal reached record highs and climbed to nearly $ 2,000 an ounce a couple of years ago.

A group of couples from my neighborhood in Pacific Palisades, California, men and women I've known for more than twenty years, got together for dinner a few months ago.

Twenty people accused of being involved in the brutal killing of a Christian couple in Pakistan more than three years ago have been acquitted.

There are so many more options today than even a couple of years ago, makes my life easier!

Unlike 30 years ago, you can find more than a couple of nationally televised college football games airing on a given Saturday.

A move wouldn't actually be surprising as there is an existing relationship between the two clubs, Real paid Newcastle more than 10 million pounds for no reason a couple of years ago, and then Newcastle gave the money back just for fun last season.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

It was just a couple of years ago when Arsenal spent a lot more time at the top of the Premier League table than any of our rivals but we seemed to crumble when the business end of things began.

Just a couple of years ago we spent more time on the top than any of our rivals and more than most of them put together but ended up having to see Man City lift the EPL trophy having enjoyed a late surge.

Age 40 isn't going so well, but he has the sympathy of a whole lot more people than he would have a couple of years ago, and an amazing career to look back on.

Pjaca, Juve's 22 - year - old Croatian winger who they signed for $ 23 million two summer transfer windows ago, is heading to the Bundesliga for the next couple of months in an attempt to get much more playing time than he would get in Turin the rest of this season.

That's two more than we got a couple of years ago and we've still got seven games to go.

That feature had been missing in the last couple of seasons as Stoke suffered more defeats than they normally would have done five or six years ago.

Even when couples break up (or have never lived together) a non resident father is likely to be more involved than a separated father was thirty years ago (Hetherington & Kelly, 2002), and many of these fathers spend a substantial time parenting alone.

Mr Helmer, currently an MEP, blamed the media for dragging up what he called a «couple of peripheral comments that were made more than ten years ago».

Coupled with the ban on claiming welfare entitlements for the first two years of residence, there is, as Jack Straw said more than ten years ago, barely a cigarette paper separating Labour and Tory policy on immigration.

«Outcomes that are novel, or eye - catching are generally seen as more attractive and competitive than those that are null or ambiguous,» putting researchers under much career pressure to produce attractive results, says Chris Chambers, a cognitive neuroscientist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who became one of the founders of the Registered Reports concept a couple of years ago, in the Royal Society's announcement.

«The situation is much more complicated than we thought a couple of years ago,» he says.

I've been drawn to a lot of healing things lately, healing sounds, healing frequencies, infrared sauna, meditation, breath work, really good deep tissue work, and, you know, I was speaking with my wife about a week ago and she commented on the fact that in the thirteen years that we've been married, when she met me, I was a bodybuilder and a spin instructor, she doesn't think she's ever seen me take any more than, perhaps, a couple of days off of an extremely hard charging life, in which I'm replying to literally hundreds of emails a day, squeezing in the type of exercise sessions that allow me to do masochistic things, volunteering, jetting around the globe, you name it.

This after I went gluten free for several months a couple of years ago, and noticed no appreciable difference, other than I was even more tired from the colossal effort involved.

There are only a couple of retail sources in my area, which doesn't sound like a lot, but that's a couple more than there were even two years ago and that is progress!

I've been blogging for more than six years, although I only really got my shit together a couple of years ago and started using social media properly, so it feels like the collaborations have been a long time coming.

Actually, I borrowed these shoes from my sister who started doing ballet one year ago or so... I started myself a couple of weeks and it is really fun (all of us rather old ladies... with old I mean old for ballet with more than 25 years and no experience) XD

I really struggle to wear heels for more than a couple of hours, ever since I damaged the ligaments in my left foot a few years ago.

Since the successful matching up of couples is becoming more and more often done by a computer generated personality or attributes test, the use of validated testing methods for matching sites is more critical than it was ten years ago.

The couple, who recently celebrated their... She's kept her relationship with Calvin Harris out of the spotlight since they began dating more than a year ago, but Taylor Swift has revealed their

SugarDaddyMeet has been operating online for more than 13 years and has been instrumental in bringing together couples of mutually beneficial relationships since its inception all those years ago.

Man keeps unopened Christmas gift from girl who dumped him almost 50 years ago «It's just become a habit after 47 years of looking at it and having the An elderly couple are finally getting rid of dozens of old household appliances they bought more than half a century ago - with many still working.

Secondly and more than likely related to this decline, the value of recovered fibre peaked a couple of years ago but remained unusually high for an extended period.

State statistics suggest that the teachers, who are nonunionized, tend to quit their jobs more frequently than in other schools; Ms. Moskowitz disputes the numbers, but wrote to her teachers a couple of years ago complaining about those who had left midyear and telling them, «This is not a «gig.»»

When NEA surveyed 1,500 pre-K-12 teachers a couple of years ago, more than 40 percent said the emphasis on improving standardized test scores had a negative impact on their classroom.

A Bentley SUV might have seemed like heresy just a couple of years ago, but now it seems more obvious to this brand than to other ultra-luxury marques entering the fray.

[5/4/2016] Yesterday I drove home the 2016 Civic LX coupe equipped with the 6 - speed gearbox, and after a few miles behind the wheel it seemed as though finally a new Civic had a bit of the grit of the previous generations coupled with the convenience and comfort I now appreciate more than I would have 15 years ago.

A couple of weeks ago, we had the first official image of the new Mercedes S - Class Cabriolet — Mercedes» first S - Class Cabriolet for more than 40 years — as -LSB-...]

Land Rover has gone quiet on its all - new Defender since it showed a couple of polarising DC100 concepts more than five years ago in 2011, but these images show it's been busy behind the scenes.

You'll get a lot more bang for the buck with a Kindle Fire HDX now than I did a couple of years ago with the Kindle HD.

A year ago, it was pretty good if I earned more than a couple hundred dollars in each of those spots.

On the tablet front, Apple made its iPad more affordable than ever with a new model that starts at $ 329, while Android tablets continued to be few and far between — at least compared to how common new models were just a couple of years ago.

It's one in three Americans that now own a tablet device, which is quite startling given they had been nonexistent even a couple of years ago (34 percent of adult Americans above 18 years of age now own a tablet, more than double the 18 percent that owned a tablet just a year ago).

They're all so affordable these days, so much more so than a couple of years ago, that having two devices isn't a huge splurge.

I began writing a little more than seven years ago during a tremendously confusing and painful period of my life in which my mental health deteriorated rapidly over the course of a couple of weeks.

I started a database of them a couple of years ago and collected more than 80 in my first cursory sweep.

When I started my blog «Life In A Pink Fibro» more than six years ago, I was a freelance writer, with a couple of non-fiction books to my name.

I started an ING account a couple of years ago to just put away a little money every couple off weeks and I was able to save more than $ 10,000 in two years.

You are earning no more than 1 % and my guess is the lowest debt interest rate would be over 3 % (home mortgage if you locked in a couple of years ago) and it would go up considerably from there (6 - 10 % for student loans and 18 % on credit cards).

Delta infamously pulled their award chart a couple of years ago and now uses some secret formula (really, they have many hidden award bands) to determine award pricing but it is very much tied to an attempt to make your miles worth not much more than a penny each.

But as it stands, allowing gamers to re-play titles they probably only last touched a couple of years ago (and only a handful of them at that) is more of a convenient feature than a killer app — especially in an era where all the old games you want to play have been remastered or re-released anyway.

Because I had so little time there's not much more I can say about it other than as much as I like these sort of joypad - based beat - em - ups I really wish I had been playing it in first - person with Kinect like how the game used to be as was briefly shown in the original Xbox 360 trailer a couple of years ago.