Sentences with phrase «odd years before»

«Yeah, it is, but it isn't... the New York Stock Exchange started regulating companies in capital markets 150 - odd years before the [Securities and Exchange Commission] was created.»

«focuses on the five odd years before emigrating from Hong Kong to the US in 1955.

How, for thirty - odd years before the advent of DLC and microtransactions, have these companies continued to operate in profit?

Those same engineers — led by none other than Roberto Fedeli, the man who made Ferraris as good as they were for 20 - odd years before being poached by BMW in 2014, and then poached back by Sergio Marchionne in 2015 to mastermind the technical rebirths not just of Alfa but Maserati as well — are equally proud of the Stelvio's chassis refinement.

Richard Kuklinski was a contract killer that went 20 odd years before finally being arrested.

Man United went 20 - odd years before they won 10 of them, Liverpool have gone 20 - odd years (without a title).

Ever since 1943, the Prohibition Party has followed a policy of nominating its presidential nominee in the odd year before the presidential election.

Not exact matches

Sometime in the years before 1913, Hoffman, the in — house statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America, began noticing something odd.

That said, hasn't it ever struck any of you as odd that scores of people had gods thousands of years before Yahweh presented himself to Abraham?

I do also find your examples odd, as Jesus spent three years teaching these men before he communed them.

Just made this INCREDIBLE cake for a good friend of ours who has spent the last 50 odd years of his life always putting others before himself (generally with a bottle of stout in his pocket to help him along!).

A class of odd radio bursts first detected by the Parkes telescope years ago came from an advanced civilization — if advanced means people on Earth so eager for a microwaved meal they open the oven before the beep.

It took years of vague and odd symptoms before I was led to Candidiasis being the diagnosis.

We started with one of this year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI MOVIE being the first animated film to vie for the worst picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet of bad films for the last 38 years; the odd timing of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.

The story, with its opposing elements of character drama and action, is blended so well that, as I said before, it feels like an old Hollywood film from some 60 - odd years ago.

After starting the year with Dragon Quest 8 [$ 19.99], one of the more recent and certainly the most technologically advanced installments in the series, we took an odd side path to Dragon Quest 4 [$ 14.99] before heading back to the beginning of the series.

One of the oddest postscripts to Captain Blood, Errol Flynn's classic 1935 swashbuckler epic, is this Italian - French co-production, shot in Spain with an international cast, including 21 year old Sean Flynn, Errol's real son, who had a fleeting interest in screen acting before switching to photo journalism in the late sixties.

In what might be the oddest instance of data skepticism, the California Department of Education, led by state Superintendent Tom Torlakson, deleted fifteen years» worth of old test scores from an easily accessible part of its website just before the release of new Common Core - aligned assessment scores in August 2015.

The Night Before: It's an odd year at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

If the «odd - couple» dynamic between Louisa and Will was your favorite part of Me Before You, don't miss The Rosie Project, last year's word - of - mouth hit that chronicled the romance between a professor who is logical to a fault and a whimsical, fun - loving bartender who comes to him for help finding her biological father.

Also, due to an odd quirk in the legislative language, it isn't clear that an in - plan Roth conversion starts the five - year clock that has to expire before you can take qualified distributions.

It's a little odd that he just started having problems at 10 years old - usually allergies will show up before that, but it's still possible.

Wisconsin veterinary credential holders must re-apply to renew their credential before December 31 of every odd numbered year.

This year, we used some odd paint (tempura) in the initial repainting, which spattered when raindrops hit it, so the sign was down for some time before it went back up.

Matt Korba, President and Creative Director of The Odd Gentlemen, also revealed that the King's Quest remake will conclude before the end of this year.

Frontier Developments, the studio behind Kinectimals and Elite of all things, revealed this odd roller - coaster»em up at E3 last year to a chorus of «erms» and «okay thens,» showing us a trailer of crazy rides and gravity - defying jumps before retreating into a near - total media blackout.

I find the decision to release the game more than half a year before the final film odd, since it's essentially an incomplete game that you won't be able to finish until the film trilogy concludes.

This is very odd, as the game has released in the West before in Japan (a first in the series» sixteen year history).

It just feels like it could have done with a lot more work before release, which is odd considering early builds of it were knocking about two years ago.

The mode has been there before but this year it has an odd push for you take part in things back stage.

There were the odd exceptions, Driveclub, Infamous: Second Son and Shadow of Mordor were games built to take advantage of the current generation technology to show us something we hadn't seen before and I know, and hope that next year will continue to offer us new experiences that will allow us to finally shrug off the longest, and therefore the most persistent gameplay trends of the PS3 days.

While it may seem odd nowadays to not receive in - depth previews & analysis of a game 2 years in advance of its release from a dozen different sources, the mini-articles published in the old SEGA magazines (particularly the newsletter, before game coverage was serious business) were often the only glimpse we got of titles for the system.

It's been said before that Halo has a 10 year plan by Frank O'Connor, which makes it odd that he claims that he's «never been in that position before.»

In winter 2014, the show tours on to the Musée des beaux - arts de Montreal, to a city where Doig spent a few years as a young man between degrees (odd - jobbing as a colour mixer and painter for a theatrical scenic artist) before completing his art education in London.

That work - 40 - odd metres long - was on show at Tate Britain, London, between January and August this year: as these things turn out, Wallinger had documented Haw's immense protest by way of 600 photographs just four days before 78 police descended on it and removed the bulk of the placards, photographs, flags, information boards and associated flotsam and jetsam that made up this quite extraordinary and motley camp.

After leaving school the next year, he held a series of odd jobs before returning to sign painting, joining the sign painters union and working mostly for the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the world.

I think you were going to be able to explain how Phil Jones — according to his testimony before Parliament — has published over 200 papers in 30 odd years and nobody has ever asked to see his data or his working.

Just as the Crown in the provincial court, by whatever name at that time, in Cornwall and in Valleyfield, were not much interested, 40 some odd years ago, in a careful consideration of evidence before laying charges, much the same attitude prevails among Justice Department lawyers and the Indian Affairs officials for whom the Justice Department supposedly lacks.

Note: The coronal polishing certificate must be renewed biennially on or before February 28th of odd - numbered years.

It is the responsibility of all licensees to renew their registration before December 31 of the odd numbered year.

Sometimes, however, ODD may develop later but almost always before the early teenage years.

The odd - even schedule can work with your children's birthdays if the day itself goes to one parent in odd years, with the other celebrating the day before or after, then reversing in the even years.

Hence, there is general consensus that: (a) CU traits can be present before the CD disorder develops; (b) although these traits are distinct from ODD, they tend to co-occur across development (Frick et al., 2014) and are distinguishable in the first 3 years of life (Willoughby et al., 2011, 2014; Waller et al., 2015a, b).

While all children qualified for a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) / Conduct Disorder (CD) before treatment, 5 - 6 years later, two - thirds no longer received such a diagnosis, the same proportion as found at the 1 - year follow - up.

Like the stenciled drop cloth curtains that served us so well for 5 1/2 years before these, I hung these curtains on dark cabinet pulls on either side of two bay windows because my windows are odd and I couldn't run a rod across both of them.