Sentences with phrase «most a year ago»

This holding dropped the most a year ago but recovered even faster.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

Three years ago, U.S. Navy SEALs staged a daring raid into Pakistan, where they caught and killed the world's most - wanted terrorist.

Two years ago, Ben Kaufman, then - CEO of well - funded consumer product startup Quirky, delivered one of the most awkward, and candid, on - stage interviews I've ever witnessed at Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference.

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

A year ago, most analysts were thinking about the situation in terms of a «cooperative game,» in which players would strive for a price that maximized their profits.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

Two years ago, Tom Cat Bakery in Queens, N.Y., was known for supplying artisanal breads to some of the most exclusive restaurants in New York City.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

Most large enterprises adopted CRM years ago for a very simple reason: It works.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

How it Innovates: While most competing teaching platforms offer the same features as they did 15 years ago (like delivering quizzes and publishing grades), D2L is already leading a major shift in the industry: It's harnessing data and analytics to become the Netflix of education.

Bitcoin, one of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the market today, was being used for both investing and payment a few years ago.

A few years ago, The New York Times named him one of the 60 most influential Americans who have made an impact on Israel.

Since most people who haven't been to Burning Man seem to be confused by what it actually is, here are some photos that sum up my trip two years ago.

Despite the changing landscape of buying behavior, however, most vendors and their salespeople cling to old habits, which were annoying 10 years ago and are downright offensive today.

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

«In most cases documentation is nonexistent, contact information is nonexistent, and the trail of any breadcrumbs left leads to the name of someone that left Amazon years ago.»

Consider: 20 years ago, the ad campaign judged most effective in America was about the perils of switching dog food.

It was less than a year and a half ago that Reddit finally banned some of its most violently racist, borderline - child - porn - y communities.

The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that the fraction of the civilian, non-institutionalized population that is self - employed and running a corporation (incorporated self - employment) was 5.1 percent below its level five years ago, when the current economic recovery was getting underway.

Most jobs that existed 20 years ago aren't needed now.

«One of the things most founders deal with today that they didn't deal with five years ago is navigating the major platforms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,» he said.

Since I started the company with my brother AJ eight years ago, I've always asked questions like: How can we bring the most value to our clients?

With massive consolidation in the semiconductor industry, only a handful of companies can even compete to make the most advanced chips, down from 13 ten years ago.

Four years ago at Google I / O 2012, Google pulled off the most ambitious live product demonstration, perhaps in history.

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.

I stopped being excited by most new product launch hype, especially about smartphones, a couple of years ago.

Four years ago, the financial crisis and ensuing collapse of the auto industry meant the only consideration for most companies was self - preservation.

Bezos is an extremely rare combination of visionary and master builder — 20 years ago seeing something no one else could see and then turning it into the world's No. 2 Most Admired Company (after Apple) on our list, with a recent market value of $ 174 billion (AMZN).

One of the most trying times of my life happened six years ago when my mother lost her courageous battle with Stage IV colon and liver cancer six years ago in November.

While several very good notebooks launched in the last year, there wasn't One True Laptop you could point to and say «this is the best machine for most people» the way you could about the MacBook Air years ago.

It's a shift from nine years ago, when the best paid hedge funder was an activist investor who had lived and breathed finance for most of his career.

Several years ago, Trump was one of the most prominent people challenging the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate.

To be sure, most of the big point moves are in recent years for an obvious reason: The Dow is much bigger than it was decades ago.

The company has also been profitable of late after many years of losses: Most recently, Sirius reported positive quarterly earnings two weeks ago, posting revenue of $ 1.3 billion and earnings of $ 0.04 per share, which beat analysts» estimates.

Most C - suites haven't added new roles since the Chief Information Officer title took hold about 20 years ago, but CBER's research suggests that's about to change.

«The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago,» he wrote, invoking one of the most infamous board blunders in tech industry lore.

Two years ago, when Greater Vancouver houses were selling for an average of just $ 1 million, Porter dismissed talk of a Canadian housing bubble by declaring that ««bubble» is perhaps the most overused word since the global financial crisis.»

A Tesla spokesperson told Mercury News, «While we can always do even better, the BBB numbers are based on a tiny number of customer issues dating back several years, most of which were resolved a long time ago.

Nine years ago, the question I got the most was whether small businesses needed to redesign their websites to be optimized for mobile users.

Virtually all of still photography switched over to digital years ago with hardly anyone looking back, and now most of us even record home video on chips rather than on tape.

His particular expertise is the top - secret document from 2008 that provided most of the magazine's revelations: A 50 - page «catalog» of NSA capabilities — some still under development five years ago, some already deployed.

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

In launching the Aliso Viejo, Calif., company three years ago, Maiffret set out to write software that could outsmart even the most clever of hackers.

Most people don't even know doing so is an option because up until a couple of years ago it wasn't.

A year ago, most were consumed with GMAT prep, interviews, and tying up loose ends.

The second and most recent edition of the book was published three years ago and reproduces essays from successful applicants to Harvard.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Don't just ask the most recent hire — ask someone the company hired six months or six years ago.