Sentences with phrase «only a year earlier»

The state rolled back criminal justice reforms it had adopted only a year earlier.

These were amended four years ago at the request of the then leader, Ed Miliband, to abolish shadow cabinet elections which had long taken place annually when the party was in opposition — a move which the same MPs had rejected only a year earlier.

Only a year earlier, Emma Stone was matched with Sean Penn..

Only a year earlier, he had been a relatively unknown painter of French Impressionist — inspired landscapes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

According to the government's 2017 - 18 budget, the debt will hit $ 14.4 billion by the end of the fiscal year, roughly $ 1 billion more than forecast only a year earlier.

Not exact matches

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

Services revenue increased only 18 % from a year earlier in the just completed quarter, the first of Apple's 2017 fiscal year.

Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated.

The degenerative condition has no cure and only two treatments on the U.S. market — including one that was approved just earlier this year.

Smartphone prices may be cratering anyway; Peter Nowak suggested it's only a matter of time earlier this year:

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

And in early February, the SodaStream Super Bowl ad featuring actress Scarlett Johansson sipping sultrily on a straw and sniping at beverage makers Coca - Cola and Pepsi only served to light a fire under the tinderbox steadily building beneath the company for years.

GDP inched upwards only 0.7 % in the third quarter from a year earlier, and the International Monetary Fund is forecasting mere 0.2 % growth for all of 2014.

When I spoke to Collins again earlier this year, he had tempered his enthusiasm, but only a bit.

Sears, for example, earlier this year announced its smaller - format store concept, which will only sell appliances and mattresses.

While retail sales and industrial output impressed, the only report to disappoint was urban fixed asset investment which grew by 7.5 % between January to September compared to same period a year earlier.

And yet, only 41 % of workers are saving in a 401 (k) at the 79 % of American companies that offer a plan to employees, Bloomberg reported earlier this year.

Instead, it sits in a PTO file and is examined only if the inventor files a regular patent application on the same invention within a one - year period and the applicant wishes to claim the earlier filing date.

A new $ 32.1 million bus - only bridge will be built in the CBD to ease congestion and get buses out of the city faster, with construction set to begin early next year.

In the CDC survey for the second half of 2016, 50.8 % of households had only mobile service, up from 48.3 % a year earlier.

Back in 2013 when he was born, that was the only widely available product the company made, it having been designed by a Swedish doctor a few years earlier.

Earlier this year, Subway announced only one day after Hari posted a petition to stop the sandwich chain from using azodicarbonamide that it would remove the chemical from its breads.

Regional uprisings started in Tunisia, where an unemployed college graduate set himself ablaze earlier this year after police confiscated his only source of income, a fruit cart.

Cardoza - James, which employed up to 75 people in its heyday of the 1980s, had only a few workers early last year.

Huawei technically added Amazon's assistant to its Mate 9 phone earlier this year, but only through a separate app.

That's nearly 5 % higher than a year earlier, and a whopping 33 % higher than in 2012, when the average balance was only $ 69,400.

The bubbly 16 - year old finished second to Biles at the U.S. trials, but was kept out of the all - around earlier this week because only four of the five U.S. gymnasts could compete in qualifying on bars.

That's only 4 % more than a year earlier.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

Indeed, the game is only coming to the Xbox One this year specifically because Microsoft has a formal Early Access program on its console, whereas Sony does not.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

It was only this year that the company rolled out Sponsored Stories — customized ads that appear in a user's timeline — for smartphones and tablets, and the early results are promising.

Just a couple of years earlier, they had made millions in the Florida real - estate market, only to lose it all in a music venture that completely drained their savings.

But other retailers have been pushing the holidays earlier and earlier, looking to ensure that they won't miss out on sales during a year when analysts, on average, are forecasting holiday spending to be up only about 2 percent to 3 percent from last year.

«The OTAs were only booking about 8 % of our rooms,» he says, «but that was up from 4 % three or four years earlier, and I thought it would keep growing.»

Only AECOM, whose stock was down about 10 % for the year through early November, owes its great year predominantly to a «Trump Bump.»

Lacking attractive new devices and hampered by manufacturing problems, Fitbit sold only 6.5 million trackers in the key fourth quarter holiday season last year, a 21 % drop from the same period a year earlier, according to International Data Corp..

Milestone: «We are expecting to hit our millionth pair of socks donated — a milestone we've been dreaming about since we first came up with the idea for Bombas, and never expected to hit this early on in our business, in only our third year of operation.»

Canadians eat out 6.7 billion times a year (only Italians dine out more), and analysts say that the breakfast and lunch markets are showing room for expansion: since the recession, diners have shifted their eating - out habits to earlier in the day.

The German publisher tried and failed to buy the Financial Times for about $ 1 billion earlier this year, only to get out - flanked by Japanese business - news giant Nikkei.

Fitbit sold only 5.4 million total devices in the fourth quarter, down from 6.5 million a year earlier and 8.2 million sold back in 2015.

The only knocks against him are a serious ACL tear in 2016 and a shoplifting arrest from earlier this year.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

For example, if you invested in a five - year CD earning 2 percent annually, and the penalty is six months of interest if you withdraw early, you only need to stay in the CD for at least a year to match the 1 percent of a high - yield savings account.

He earlier this year briefly surpassed Gates to take the top spot as not only the richest person in tech, but in the entire world.

Though it's only been around since 2012, Blue Apron is already selling more than 3 million meals each month, CEO Matt Salzberg told Business Insider earlier this year.

A now - former SEC commissioner said in a speech earlier this year that investment advisers can expect to be examined by the SEC only once every 12 years because the agency is short - staffed.

Robert Rose, CMI chief strategy advisor, wrote a terrific article earlier this year on how trust and the relationship with an addressable audience will be the only value left as advertising continues to transform.

In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one year earlier than targeted, but also to show a declining debt ratio, rapidly approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s