Sentences with phrase «normal a year ago»

Other utilities adapted alternative normals years ago.

My blood test results were normal a year ago.

Not exact matches

Despite a 9 percent jump in new listings in April from a year ago, Portland has an anemic 1.8 - month supply of homes for sale compared with a normal market of six months.

The rejection, or what would have been a normal step years ago, is now perceived as an unreasonable move.

These incidents took place as the market continues to soften, with February MLS sales running at only two - thirds normal seasonal levels and prices about 6 % lower than a year ago.

Blind Alley was a normal cafe, until about two years ago when the owner started bringing her baby raccoons into the store.

The rich are getting richer because the middle class can't buy property, they can't buy property because the cost of normal things are exponentially higher today than 10 year ago, rents keep going up because people can't buy property making it harder to get away from renting.

«Zachary is an eighteen - year - old kid who up until four months ago had led a relatively normal life.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Some years ago Mundell, looking at economy sizes, growth rates, percent invested overseas, etc., concluded that a dollar / euro relationship between $ 1.20 and $ 1.30 could be considered normal, or neither to strong nor too weak for either country.

Uber says that it's normal for an entity that was founded two years ago as of January 2017 to see this level of attrition, particularly as the company recently paid out its employee bonuses.

Once I decided to start blogging, sharing became the new normal for a topic that a few years ago was very taboo to speak about.

Consider all the things we have today as part of normal every day life, that would have been considered miraculous 2000 or more years ago.

Fifty years ago, to be middle class was to be normal.

Indeed, to be simply the same in character and knowledge now as I was twenty years ago would mean that I was not the same person who until then had been changing and growing in a normal way.

Up until 300 or 400 years ago, «normal christians» were very much into killing infidels and burning heretics, no so much praying for them.

Some years ago, when I was teaching at a theological seminary in South Africa, I had a very peculiar experience; as with the bear in James Thurber's «bear that could take it or leave it alone,» the experience was somewhat more frightening to my colleagues than is my normal, somewhat cynical self.

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

I've noticed that people in general are more tolerant than say, 10 years ago when I first went veg — it's just more normal now.

Before the recession hit several years ago, consumers in the Caribbean were regularly buying ice cream and other luxury items at their normal price points.

I ended up sticking to it for over 6 years now and I actually really enjoy it:)(still not 100 % gluten free or vegan (I'm good with spelt, rye and we eat butter, honey and fish) but just a few months ago, I tested myself again (I did this every 4 - 6 months and ate a wheat and egg cake AND I am happy to report that I didn't have my usual symptoms — I felt normal, no issues:) Mind you, I didn't have too much but a small slice that was homemade from organic ingredients so I felt comfortable that there's no artificial ingredients and preservatives.

I went vegan a little over a year ago and I've been packing in the beans, lentils, whole grains, and greens, especially spinach (and especially into smoothies with strawberries, got ta get that vitamin C to help absorb the iron) and yet I was still relatively low on iron when I went to get my blood checked (within the «normal» range, but definitely on the lower end).

We never been a normal club since I remember 30 years ago.

Wenger would have been sacked years ago under normal circumstances, and people need to realise that the only reason he is still in charge, is 100 % down to the profit he brings into the club.

Childbirth education began over forty years ago in an effort to shift the mentality of birth as an illness to birth as normal and an arena where moms and dads have choices.

He had all of the signs of SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) however, just seven years ago, this disorder was way under a normal pediatricians radar.

I remember it like yesterday, although it was almost a year ago now... The evening was a normal night around our house.

Even a few years ago compression shirts were not normal, only a handful of really committed bodybuilders wore them.

It's nerve - wracking, but I keep reminding myself, as I did with my son four years ago, the odds are still overwhelmingly in favor of normal and healthy.

However, it's worth noting that 20 years ago the only midwifery care option in Ireland was home birth, so a lot has been done in the last 20 years to widen and improve normal birth care for women in Ireland, but there is still a lot left to do.

Fifty years ago it was normal for pregnancies to go ten days post dates because 1) there was no accurate dating technology and 2) there was no data showing it was a problem.

Even as recently as 50 years ago women thought that pregnancy made them delicate enough to stay at home more often than not, and the recovery from childbirth left a woman hospitalized for weeks after a normal birth.

When I had our baby, a little over 40 years ago, the hospital had blood standing by in case there was any kind of problem, but my baby was born healthy and normal, although he did inherit the RH factor from his father.

I don't even think I can live a «normal» schedule anymore; I tried a little bit a couple years ago and was bored with the routine.

«Twenty - five years ago, vaginal breech births were considered a variation of normal,» Moray continued.

These things seem so normal now that they're barely noteworthy, but think about how alien they would have been just ten or twelve years ago.

Three years ago, when the public perception was of a normal «kinda» guy who took his children to school and made it home for bath - time, 36 per cent of women backed the Tories, compared to 31 per cent for Labour.

Because Labour could, potentially, win if the previously Labour but now non-voters can be persuaded to start turning out and voting Labour again, but only if the non-voting support base is fairly large, and without that sort of analysis over larger areas it's hard to judge — it's definitely partially true in my ward, Labour had disappeared electorally years ago, but won the seat in 2012, despite most other parties getting similar votes to normal (and our support mostly going to an Independent we were tacitly backing).

«Two years ago was normal,» Julie Welsted, a mother, said at a public hearing.

In Portugal, job opportunities for scientists from abroad are much better than they used to be 25 years ago, but there still is «no decent seed money or a reentry funding policy, which is a great pity, because everything else makes us feel that we are becoming a «normal» scientific country,» de Sousa says.

Philadelphia — Ten years ago this month the promise of using normal genes to cure hereditary defects crashed and burned, as Jesse Gelsinger, an 18 - year - old from Tucson, Ariz., succumbed to multiorgan failure during a gene therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania.

Xcel Energy, which provides power in eight different states, including Minnesota, Colorado and the Dakotas, started using 20 - year normals nearly 20 years ago.

His murder over 5,000 years ago seems to have been brought about due to a personal conflict a few days before his demise, and the man from the ice, despite his normal weight and active life - style, suffered from extensive vascular calcification.

Normal matter in the early Universe, that is 14 billion years ago, consists mostly of gas.

The two - part approach netted a set of mutations seen only at relapse that enabled the team to sift and sort leukemic and normal stem cells using tools developed in the Dick lab a few years ago to zero in on specific cell types fated to relapse.

In experiments first reported several years ago, Blackshaw's team found a way to disrupt the normal function of the SCN without physically removing it and damaging the optic nerve.

The first planets outside the solar system were discovered 25 years ago — not around a normal star like our Sun, but instead orbiting a tiny, super-dense «neutron star».

Searching for an answer, neuroscientists Henry Paulson, Randall Pittman, and their Pennsylvania colleagues set out 2 years ago to look at the distribution of the MJD gene's protein product in normal brains and those of MJD patients.

A furious debate ensued: the fossil discoverers classify the meter - tall hominin as part of a separate species that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago; others maintain it was a modern human who had microcephaly, in which the brain fails to reach normal size.

Adult lactose intolerance appears to have been the normal condition for Homo sapiens 100,000 years ago.