Sentences with phrase «of this a number of years ago»

«The court decision of a number of years ago said we have to provide our young people with a meaningful education and a good job for the future,» said Queens Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, chairwoman of the Committee on Education.

I was reminded of this a number of years ago by a question a student named Molly posed to me on the first day of microeconomics class.

Up to 40 % of Maine Coon cats used to have this trait, but it was bred out of them a number of years ago.

Not exact matches

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

Ever since it was first floated a year ago, the idea of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a number of areas.

The number of US air strikes in Afghanistan has spiked since President Donald Trump took office a year ago though the insurgents have hit back with deadly attacks, including a bloody Taliban raid on a Kabul hotel on the weekend.

«A domestic subscriber miss two years ago would have caused the stock to trade down regardless of the international number.»

«Taking a look at a country like New Zealand — number four in the ranking — we can see the impact of a program they implemented 10 years ago,» says Farrington.

The number of iPhone units sold fell from a year ago, despite expectations of modest growth — this time last year, Apple sold 78 million iPhones.

«I went down to Silicon Valley a number of years ago, and there were places where you just get [hit] with this entrepreneurial energy when you walked in the door,» recalls the business graduate.

ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgment.»

Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.

And as the number of telecommuters increases (studies suggest about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.

A few years ago, when one of their own was running for president, a number of private equity executives seemed worried that the industry might have a Mitt Romney problem.

Before single - handedly bootstrapping AppSumo five years ago from the basement of an apartment in San Francisco's trippy Haight - Ashbury district, the 33 - year - old entrepreneur was a self - described «cubicle monkey» at Intel, employee number 30 at Facebook (he was fired) and employee number four at Mint (he quit).

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.

About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving as of a few years ago, according to an industry study, a number that has been falling.

Years ago, to get a game into your living room, a developer would have to jump through any number of industry hoops, whether finding distribution through a major publisher or navigating the approval labyrinth of the various console gatekeepers.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

In the U.S. today, the number of publicly listed companies is less than half of what it was 20 years ago.

Since he started advertising on Facebook a year and a half ago, the number of new clients who discovered the salon online has risen 20 percent.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

Since proposing the program two years ago, IPF executive director Andra Sheffer says the number of web series has grown from five or six total to 50 Canadian series.

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.

Having put off the building of the hotel complex for a number of years after the global financial crisis, construction of the 307 - room DreamMore, which will be is next door to Dollywood, started over two years ago.

«We did a bit of an experiment eight years ago when a number of airlines came to us back during a GDS negotiation, and they said, «You do our shopping for us.

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.

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

This year 17 states require students to take a personal finance course, nearly three times the number of states that did so 10 years ago.

Year it began franchising: 1982 Number of franchises: 546 Startup costs: $ 225,000 to $ 358,000 Overall 2012 Franchise 500 rank: 79 Hungry Howie's got its start nearly four decades ago in a converted hamburger shop in Taylor, Mich..

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

I started TaxiGuy, which is a national network of 400 cab companies that was really cool 15 years ago because they were linked together through a toll - free phone number and now it's moved to an app system.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

The most thorough numbers I've seen were compiled by Internet Filter Review a few years ago, before the deluge of YouTube porn clones kicked the downfall into high gear.

«As recently as three years ago, Black Friday — dominated by Big Store brands — was clearly better than smaller brand - focused and clothing - focused Cyber Monday, in terms of the number and quality of deals, as well as the number of participating retailers,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

And yet, just a few years ago, there was really no digital UX experience to speak of, other than checking a static website to get a phone number and hours.

The large number of immigrants among Fortune 500 founders was first documented eight years ago by an organization called New American Economy.

Ten years ago, I had the occasion to speak to a number of hedge fund complexes as the industry was growing.

com), whose company also owns a number of other Canadian contact lens websites, only started his company two years ago but is already the second - place vendor in the Canadian market.

That's roughly the number of digital properties that Fortune 500 chemicals company DuPont (DD) was struggling to update prior to streamlining its Internet presence to a more manageable 52 sites, a process it started about two years ago.

Yelp faces other concerns: Though the company recently announced that customers had rated 1 million local businesses in less than three months — bringing the total number of reviews north of 10 million — the site's monthly unique visits are down 2.97 percent (to 24.4 million) compared to a year ago, according to Compete.com.

Ten years ago, the famously data - obsessed company decided to apply the full force of its considerable number - crunching skills to an all important but seemingly mysterious question for organizations: What makes a great manager?

By comparison, the number of monthly active users on Twitter, the company that bought Vine for $ 30 million a few years ago, was at 316 million in late July.

A little over a year ago, Chesky reached out and asked if he could travel to Omaha to have lunch, in part to talk about how Airbnb might help expand the number of rooms available in town during Berkshire's annual meeting weekend.

Chan said that about five years ago, he worked with a Hong Kong - based non-government organisation, which advised him to lag the pipes inside his factory to reduce the number of steam leaks.

As Katz pointed out, «I honestly think that if Democrats broadly were told a year ago that this would be the extent of what Trump had referred to as «doing a number» on Dodd - Frank, they would probably take this deal.»

Michael Hudson: In the case of the oil spike a few years ago, there have been a number of studies that have showed that almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand.

The number of starter and trade - up homes currently on the market is down 15.6 percent and 13 percent respectively, compared to a year ago, according to Trulia, a real estate website.

The number of home sales that closed this spring were slightly higher than a year ago, but the lack of listings clearly held the market back.

When I was doing my first keyword research 4 years ago, I had no idea how substantial is a number of relevant keyword suggestions for the process.