Sentences with phrase «of a couple years ago»

Gano's not exactly a great kicker, but if Carolina can regain some of that Super-Bowl-losing form of a couple years ago, he could rack up mad points.

Considering that Bruhl is German, it might be a smart bet that he could take over the role of Red Skull from Hugo Weaving, who wasn't too keen on returning as the villain as of a couple years ago.

@Pat — Unfortunately as of a couple years ago only miles earned via flying will count toward Million Mile status with American so these won't help.

I discovered that due to the strength of the US dollar, you currently can snag a really nice, new 4 - 5 star hotel in Sydney for less than US$ 300 per night — that would have been unheard of a couple years ago before the US dollar's ascent.

Even the autofocus resembles a smartphone camera of a couple years ago.

Not exact matches

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

A couple years ago, Karen Okonkwo had a difficult time finding photos of women of color for her blog, Sorority Secrets.

Al - Katib illustrates with an incident that occurred a couple of years ago.

A couple of years ago, one of our best developers quit on us mainly because the team we had built wasn't good enough for him.

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

Half a dozen years ago, cousins Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac met up to share a couple of drinks and a couple of memories of the lobster cookouts of their youth.

I received the kit as part of a gift bag at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference a couple years ago.

«A couple of years ago, we started looking into ridesharing and I did a tremendous amount of research,» says David Liniado, vice president of new ventures at Cox.

A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.

A couple years ago, Vox's German Lopez explained the rise of swatting in terms of the internet's broader trolling culture:

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article entitled «Psychological Clientology: 5 Types of Clients to Avoid.»

It started as a modest co-working space in a former bank branch just a couple of years ago to a large, well - managed space and business incubator.

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

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

Vizio started building a Chromecast into its TVs a couple of years ago, and this year it turned on Google Home integration.

My brother asked me this question a couple of years ago and the answer is nothing, really.

TPGTEX Label Solutions Inc., a Houston - based seller of label - printing software, printers and related products, got a head start on finding a new printer supplier a couple of years ago after a friendly sales representative, without going into too much detail, warned that the company's existing vendor was on rocky footing.

I went Bluetooth with my keyboard and mouse a couple of years ago and never looked back.

A couple of years ago I went to Johannesburg, South Africa.

Chappelle returned to a relatively steady stand - up comedy schedule a couple of years ago, and he spent the weekend performing six shows (two a night) as part of Austin City Limits Live.

The Roasterie, a 17 - year - old company in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, sent out a small price increase a couple months ago, according to Paul Massad, the company's director of supply chain and self - described «bean hunter.»

Derivatives were traded entirely over the phone until post-financial crisis regulations required the market to go electronic a couple of years ago.

«A couple of years ago is when we made a stance,» CEO Mat Ishbia told Fortune.

My father, Bernie, passed away a couple of years ago, and yet he lives on in so many practical life lessons that he taught me over the years.

A year ago, they relaxed for a couple of weeks in Mexico with a yacht, a captain, and four of Kanciar's friends.

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

All of this may stem from the fact that a couple of years ago, Urban Outfitters fretted it had become «too vanilla» and «lost a little bit of its edginess.»

A couple of years ago, after a survey asked customers what they wanted the company to do for them, one customer joked he wanted Qualtrics to help him buy a wedding ring for his fiance.

The Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan, for example, started using leadership assessments a couple of years ago to help pinpoint areas where senior staff need improvement and to verify impressions of outside candidates.

A couple years ago, when Apple CEO Tim Cook started talking up Apple's services revenue — largely millions of tiny purchases of songs on iTunes and apps in Apple's App Store — critics assumed this was a smokescreen to distract from weakening hardware sales.

«This phrase seems to have lost some of its allure from a couple years ago, thankfully,» she says.

Buffett says that when his 5 - year - old grandson took a tour years ago and gorged on samples, «he was with a couple little buddies, and [after the tour] he gets out of the car and just throws up all of it.»

A couple of years ago, the FBI caught flak when one agent acknowledged the dilemma and said the agency often simply advised companies to pay up when they had no other recourse.

A couple of years ago, the Centenaris decided to invest roughly $ 1 million in the corrugator, the giant machine that turns big rolls of brown paper into the corrugated sheets that will eventually become boxes.

You may remember Kanojia from a couple of years ago, when he was CEO of Aereo, a company that allowed subscribers to stream and record broadcast channels.

Until a couple of years ago, negative rates were largely seen as an academic experiment, likely to be seen in textbooks and economic research papers, but never actually in the real world.

A couple of years ago, after Virgin Money acquired the British bank Northern Rock, I travelled the country, welcoming the new employees into the Virgin Group.

Thermo Bubbles When fitness guru David Kirsch (Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, etc.) introduced Thermo Bubbles a couple of years ago, stores couldn't restock fast enough.

About four years ago, Lindzon got an email from a couple of young guys with a new idea: a stock brokerage mobile app that would let users trade for free.

It's a «myth that Jamie Dimon is a good risk manager,» she said, noting that a couple of years ago J.P. Morgan lost «hundreds of millions» due to speculative derivative trading in which they «monopolized the entire global coal market.»

Nintendo first introduced Amiibo — a series of NFC (near field communications) statues — a couple of years ago, but they've remained popular ever since.

I've been very happy with the Vizio TV I bought a couple of years ago, and the company has brought HDR, a previously high - end feature, to its entry - level line.

Even a couple of years ago, the FTC says, it had already «received hundreds of complaints involving bitcoins and other virtual currencies.»

A couple of years ago, it was clear that having a business partner was not the best option for me.

«We have seen security go from, again what was a couple years ago 20 %, 25 % to consistently 40 % of the business,» Conte said at the time, as recorded in a transcript of the call on the finance site Seeking Alpha.