Sentences with phrase «more than a few years ago»

(The same isn't true for secondhand seats or seats purchased more than a few years ago, which may have been designed to meet outdated standards or recalled for safety violations.)

Crib safety standards have changed over the years — not more than a few years ago, cribs had drop - sides which were implicated in safety issues (sides detached, resulting in injuries and in some cases, death).

Hopefully though I'm learning what I like and don't like before I shell out the money (well, at least a little more than a few years ago!).

Look unnatural — for example, those of you in very skimpy clothes or from more than a few years ago set off alarm bells for guys, who may feel that you appear untrustworthy

I feel like I've been writing stories since I was a teenager (more than a few years ago now), and I wrote a web series pilot called Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths starring Jen Lilley, Lesley Fera, Tamara Taylor and Kris Polaha that we filmed in 2013.

Shopping for a more affordable life insurance policy is a good idea, especially if you bought your policy more than a few years ago.

In a long tenure - of for jobs more than a few years ago, this becomes exponentially more difficult.

The finial was a free gift from a Sugarloaf Home tour attended with besties E, N and C more than a few years ago.

Not exact matches

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.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

A police report itemizes more than $ 600,000 in items stolen in a burglary at their home a few years ago, including two Swiss watches, HK$ 200,000 ($ 25,600) in cash, and a kilo of gold.

A few years ago, the company introduced new processes and systems that directly affected the day - to - day work of more than half of the organization.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

Motorola says the device, which sold particularly well in India and Brazil and re-established the company in the United Kingdom, is its most successful smartphone yet — even more so than its Droid a few years ago.

Campaigns on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are largely more sophisticated than their counterparts from just a few years ago.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

Since its creation just a few years ago, the CFPB has returned $ 11.8 billion to more than 29 million consumers!

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

That's according to David Noto, owner of Altaneve, a premium Italian sparkling wine that launched in the U.S. a year and a half ago and to date has sold 2,400 cases in more than 100 northeastern U.S. locations, with plans to expand into Las Vegas and California within the next few months.

ARMED with the latest technology, minerals explorers today gather more data in just a few hours than would have been imaginable to field geologists a few years ago.

«Videoconferencing is a whole different experience today than it was a few years ago, and it's more affordable, which is driving it down» to smaller companies, says Brett Shockley, CEO at Spanlink Communications, a Minneapolis communications reseller that markets videoconferencing and other communications networks to small and mid-sized businesses.

Despite a long sales cycle and little volume driven by repeat purchases, this legendary piano saleswoman sold more than $ 40 million in Steinways before retiring a few years ago.

Founder and chief inventor Sir James Dyson had been tinkering with the design and considered coming to market a few years ago, but he held off until he felt he had more than just a me - too product.

Today, Detroit has 700,000 residents, far fewer than the almost 1 million people who called the Motor City home more than 90 years ago in 1920 and half the 1.6 million people who lived there in 1940, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

But companies are starting with more humble ambitions and more realistic growth strategies now than they were even just a few years ago.

There's also a South Korean study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.

Moreover, every gadget contains scores of different technologies — a typical cellphone of a few years ago, for example, was comprised of more than 10,000 different patents.

Things that I was singing a year ago I have to take fewer breaths on because I can ration my singing breath more easily than I was able to do before.

These days it seems that people everywhere are more conversant about money and investing than they were just a few years ago.

We created this a few years ago for our own inbound recruiting, and it has had more than 3 million views (at writing).

Fewer than a million Jews swept up by the Nazis survived that nightmare more than 70 years ago.

«I think this journey is still one percent complete,» Facebook engineering director Hussein Mehanna told Recode, «but it's still far more revolutionary than what we had a few years ago.»

But as more and more book - wielding entrepreneurs crowd the stage, the term published author has less traction than it did even a few years ago, Booher says.

We have a situation now where small businesses are suffering, and we have fewer starting and more failing than 40 years ago.

Executives who only a few days ago raged against all the elements of the current compromise now say it is the only possible deal, way better than two more - BC Premier Gordon Campbell topped that at five more - years of uncertain litigation.

Now I'm making way more per assignment than I did when I first started a few years ago.

Lai said his forecast of a decline to 6.60 a dollar, which was made more than a year ago, may be reached «in the next few days,» and that there's scope to revise it lower.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.

His options are more open now than they were a few years ago, as America has become less tethered to Canadian supply.

Gwyneth Paltrow said very few people knew about Harvey Weinstein's advances on her more than 20 years ago.

In the recent past, low interest credit cards have become more common than they used to be a few years ago.

«I think this journey is still one percent complete,» Mehanna said, «but it's still far more revolutionary than what we had a few years ago....

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

«Three years ago, Revolut was nothing more than a few coders with a crazy ambition to disrupt financial services forever,» Revolut's Chief Blogging Officer Rob Braileanu wrote.

Having founded and managed more than a few companies in my life, all I can say is, I wish I'd had a book like Small Business, BIG Vision years ago.

It takes substantially more time, money, and effort to accomplish successful link building than it did just a few years ago.

That means the car company that gets massive taxpayer subsidies is now worth more than the car company taxpayers bailed out a few years ago.

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

Brokers also say foreign buyers are more active now than they were during the peak of the market a few years ago.

More than 75 percent of farmland sold in the District was purchased by farmers despite a slight decrease from a few years ago and sharp declines in U.S. farm income (Chart 4).