Sentences with phrase «of a fortnight ago»

One would think after the trauma of a fortnight ago all fans would rally together now and help motivate this team to do better.

Not exact matches

In its first response to the bruising fortnight of royal commission hearings, which ended a week ago, into misconduct in its financial advice division AMP said that «irrespective of the criticism surrounding its production» the Clayton Utz report was «an important and powerful catalyst» for its response to the misconduct uncovered.

The latest grim prognosis from the Washington - based fund represents a significant deterioration from a fortnight ago, when the IMF published an analysis of Greece's debt sustainability ahead of the referendum that said no to the creditors» proposals.

It touched a low of 0.78 % just over a fortnight ago.

«Eight years ago when we opened our doors, we started with 66 head of cattle a fortnight.

This is a rehash of a rumour they first published a fortnight ago.

The Chilean is out of contract next summer and is firmly expected to leave the club without extending that deal, and Manchester City had been believed to be nailed on as his next club, until a fortnight ago at least.

Aside from their disappointing setback against Tottenham a fortnight ago, the Reds have won three of their last four games, scoring 14 goals in that timeframe and have shown signs of improvement.

The additions of Jackson Irvine and Nouha Dicko will add some real fire power up top as City look to build on their 4 - 0 thrashing of Bolton a fortnight ago.

This is the story of three turkey hunters, and the wild turkeys they did not kill in Virginia a fortnight ago.

But a fortnight ago in Oslo a chance came, when a team from Red China turned up among those of 14 nations to compete for the world speed skating championships.

In a recreation of the Paris metro incident from a fortnight ago, the PSG fans can be seen mocking a person dressed as John Terry before refusing to allow him to board a Berlin - bound train.

If not, John Terry, whom Capello previously indicated he would prefer to leave out, would be on the bench at least, providing another twist to a saga that began with the alleged racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand at Loftus Road just over a fortnight ago.

This being the year for the run from Annapolis, the wharves of the old colonial city were filled with racing skippers and talk of the rule a fortnight ago.

Fortnight ago it ws sanchez has agree terms to Join man city, last week it ws sanchez on d verge of joining BAYERN MUNICH dis week it is PSG..

In rooms 107, 108, 109, and in several other apartments of the Seal Rock Inn in San Francisco, conditions were on the cramped side a fortnight ago.

They've won four of their last five, scoring 11 goals along the way, including five ay Goodison Park as they ripped Everton apart a fortnight ago.

Jurgen Klopp's side are hardly charging towards their target — despite the 7 - 0 thrashing of the Slovenians a fortnight ago — and this match reflected their incremental progress in Group E.

A fortnight ago, CSKA beat Benfica 2 - 1 in the first group stage match of the season, a good start the Russia side will want to continue.

Revealing his feelings a fortnight ago, Pires said, «I had an approach from Madrid, but, for me to tilt towards Arsenal, it was because of Wenger ringing me up personally.»

But Di Maria, who sat out the entirety of the first leg defeat in Spain a fortnight ago, demonstrated all is not lost for Unai Emery's team as he broke the deadlock with a deflected right - foot strike on the stroke of half - time.

Ronaldo, among the final nominees for the fourth successive year, finished ahead of FC Bayern München's Arjen Robben and Manuel Neuer in a live vote by a panel of 54 journalists who had to select, via an electronic system, their favourite from a three - man shortlist announced a fortnight ago.

Out of the blue on a Thursday morning just over a fortnight ago, it was reported that United had agreed a # 75 million fee with Everton for Lukaku, which was soon denied by the Goodison Park club.

Having lost 3 - 1 against Monaco at Emirates Stadium a fortnight ago, Arsene Wenger's side must score at least three times in Monte Carlo if they are to stand any chance of progressing to the last eight of the tournament.

Embed from Getty Images In an utter show of sheer dominance and malicious ruthlessness in front of goal, the Gunners left Louis van Gaal's men dejected and reeling in pain following their 3 - 0 thumping nearly a fortnight ago at the Emirates.

-LSB-...] A fortnight ago, I wrote effusively of Oxford United's strong start to the season; Chris Wilder's charges having reached the summit of the League 2 table with a win over Plymouth.

The Gunners faced demoralizing back - to - back draws ever since their 2 - 1 defeat at the hands of Manchester United a fortnight ago, which has now dragged them down to the seventh position on the table.

Actual supporters of the Magpies will probably think different, with the team's 5 - 1 annihilation of local arch-rivals Sunderland a fortnight ago extremely hard to eclipse, but to win at The Emirates, against all the odds and expectations, takes some doing and considering the amount of effort they put, the manner in which they set themselves up, kept their positional discipline and their application was second to none makes their 1 - 0 win over Arsenal in the capital unquestionably their best result of the season to date — As controversial as that may be.

Barcelona will be looking to avenge their 2 - 1 defeat at the Emirates a fortnight ago as they host Arsenal in the second leg of this all - important last 16 Champions League clash Tuesday evening.

Following two very positive results against Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, where City earned a 0 - 0 draw at White Hart Lane before confidently despatching of Liverpool 3 - 0 at the City of Manchester Stadium — The venue for Saturday's encounter, City were brought down from the clouds with a thud a fortnight ago, with Darren Bent punishing Manchester's lavished stars for their glaring misses with an injury time penalty — An early reminder for City's foreign recruits that any complacency at this level will be punished with aplomb.

Blackburn, though, to their credit have built some solid foundations at home this season and their run of seven games without defeat at Ewood Park make them a tough proposition for any side, as Liverpool found out just a fortnight ago.

Both of them have demonstrated sharp form with 6.58 season's bests but the latter has been hampered by a back injury which still appeared to bother the 2009 champion in Birmingham a fortnight ago as he failed to progress from his heat.

Arsenal's 2 - 0 victory at home to Bayern Munich a fortnight ago was built on the foundation of a solid defence, married to a relentless counter-attacking determination to prevail upon the German champions» poor defensive transitions.

Centre - half Aaron O'Driscoll — a standout performer in Saints» Checkatrade Trophy win over Cambridge a fortnight ago — believes the squad have been uplifted by that result, and will use the performance as a marker for the remainder of the season.

The obvious candidates for omission are goalkeeper David de Gea, who didn't feature in Lisbon a fortnight ago, with Danish keeper Anders Lindegaard set to deputise once more, 32 - year - old centre - back Rio Ferdinand, who didn't have a particularly good game against Stoke at the weekend and has a minor knock, and possibly Darren Fletcher, who hasn't played an awful lot of games since Christmas.

«In one of the biggest games against Man United (a fortnight ago) he (Antonio Valencia) was two or three yards offside (for Zlatan Ibrahimovic's equaliser) and no one really speaks about it,» he added.

Manchester City have won just two of their last nine games against Italian opposition now home and away, the win over Napoli a fortnight ago adding to a win over Roma in the 2014/15 group stage.

Brett Omerod looks set to drop down to the bench following the arrival of DJ Campbell, but other than that there shouldn't be too many changes from the team which earned a hard - fought 2 - 2 draw with Fulham a fortnight ago.

A fortnight ago the International Monetary Fund, which once backed the Chancellor's plan, called for a change of course - proposing «near - term support for the economy» — an immediate # 10 billion boost to infrastructure investment to support growth.

Yes, the ex-prime minister admitted, a fortnight ago he had indeed said he «would like to see a second reading of the bill by Easter».

This is despite their stern threat a fortnight ago over the non-payment of their salary arrears.

The statement said «though the government has till date not issued a comprehensive response to the Lecture delivered by Dr. Bawumia a fortnight ago, we are encouraged by the suggestions made by the Head of the Economic Management Team and Vice-President, H.E. Kwesi Bekoe Amissah - Arthur, over the weekend in Sunyani, that the government is still studying the Lecture and will in due course respond comprehensively to the Lecture.»

And Corbyn took nine months of badgering to agree to meet the major environmental charities, including Greenpeace and the RSPB, only for him to cancel it when the shadow environment secretary, Kerry McCarthy, who had been organising the event, resigned a fortnight ago.

The Ipsos MORI poll has topline figures, with changes from MORI's last poll conducted a fortnight ago, of CON 43 % (+3), LAB 32 % -LRB--5), LDEM 15 % (+3).

About a fortnight ago, police in the Ashanti Region also arrested an Ivorian national with a large cache of arms and ammunition.

A fortnight ago, Harriett Baldwin MP asked the following question to Tom Brake, the Deputy Leader of the Commons, during Business Questions:

Sources close to Mr Corbyn say the bulk of those who have joined since the EU referendum a fortnight ago have done so to vote for him if another leadership election takes place.

They said that they could no longer serve their electorate effectively owing to the crisis trailing the leadership of PDP at the aborted National Convention of the party in Port Harcourt a fortnight ago.

Speaking at the Conservative party conference a fortnight ago, Hunt described the costs as unaffordable and indicated the health department would need to make savings from «the huge amount of inefficiency in the system» to foot the bill at least in part.

The deceased, Stephen Nii Adjei Botchway, was one of the students writing the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) but got involved in the unfortunate incident a fortnight ago.