Sentences with phrase «past a decade ago»

Environmental lawyer Abby Williams ran away from her dark past a decade ago, and she's been enjoying a stable professional life in Chicago ever since.

Didn't we move past that decades ago?

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In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

Kantar Media said the average price of a 30 - second Super Bowl commercial jumped 87 percent the past decade, from $ 2.7 million in 2008 to $ 5.05 million a year ago.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

On the bright side, the dismal 2.85 % annual total return of the S&P 500 over the past decade has actually exceeded the return of roughly 0 % that we projected a decade ago, so maybe we'll get equally lucky over the coming decade.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Matt Vickers describes the gathering in High Level two weeks ago as a «coming out party» for a railway project to which he and his partners have devoted much of the past decade — and it doesn't...

A few decades ago, this would have been about groups» right to discriminate against African - Americans, but we've moved past that.

First is the growth of friendly GUI (Graphic User Interfaces) started at Xerox Parc twenty years ago, used by Apple for the past decade, and now coming to the PC world through NT Windows & trade; and its successor, called for now Chicago.

I do want to add here some basic facts, the article the following is taken from is using facts from the past decade not from 2000 years ago... these facts are what matter now, not that book written by sheep herding men who probably enjoyed the company of their herd (thus the term bestiality??)

Surveying the American past with Evangelicals as their focus, Finke and Stark discover the same «law» of American church history that Kelley did two decades ago: «To the degree that denominations rejected traditional doctrines and ceased to make serious demands on their followers, they ceased to prosper.»

The market for bison meat experienced growing pains in the past decade, but it has recovered from a period of oversupply and underdevelopment about 10 years ago.

These decadent Maple Syrup drenched Blondies are just one of so many recipes that I've tried in the past few months from her newest book «Vegan with a Vengeance» from Da Capo Lifelong Books Born and raised in Brooklyn, Isa Chandra Moskowitz began her vegan cooking journey over two decades ago.

All fittings and reminders of its past were removed decades ago, although a nearby tunnel network, which retains bunk beds, has been listed by English Heritage.

The only explanation for this stigma being attached to a program that cut down the nets just two years ago (aside from people simply not paying attention) is that «Nova has been something of a bipolar presence in March for the past decade.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Since he joined the club from Spurs over a decade ago, the England international has been a valiant and reliable servant for the Red Devils these past years, with it being a truly sad sight that the player won't ever put on a United shirt again after this campaign.

Well, Roma has had some success against Real in the past, albeit a decade ago, but I'm not sure that's relevant in 2018.

The Egypt international's 32 goals in all competitions took him past Luis Suarez's best mark at Liverpool of 31 and to within a goal of the 33 netted by Fernando Torres exactly a decade ago.

For all their lavish spending, PSG have still not made it past the quarter - finals of the competition this decade, and there have now been consecutive exits in the last 16, the 5 - 2 aggregate loss to Cristiano Ronaldo's Real coming after a spectacular collapse saw them crash out in Barcelona a year ago.

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the growth of Major League Soccer over the past decade, but nothing accelerated progress quite like the landmark arrival of the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star 10 years ago.

@JeffLambert The most recent years (from skimming the indictment with layman's eyes) would seem to be their lying about past crimes, which at least have their origins over a decade ago.

That was nearly a decade ago and we're still in the same place where you've got these two solitudes speaking right past each other, despite the fact that they could only possibly benefit from one another.

It's the latest pass at a proposal that has drawn harsh criticism in the past, including when then - mayor Michael Bloomberg unsuccessfully tried to advance congestion pricing in New York City a decade ago.

NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney counted the number of bills introduced and passed in the Assembly and Senate for the past several decades, and found that's the lowest number since 1914, 98 years ago.

Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research (NYPIRG) counted the number of bills introduced and passed in the Assembly and Senate for the past several decades, and found it was the lowest number since 1914, 98 years ago.

Town Councilwoman Marisa Muratori speculated that someone who was driving up the Northway within the past several years might have dumped the remains into the woods — as had occurred in another incident about a decade ago.

Sir Roger says Mr Lansley had never bothered to visit him until a fortnight ago, despite his success in halving heart - disease death rates and slashing waiting times in the past decade, with minimal involvement by the private sector.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

Working together, they are uncovering information about Exeter's past that would have been inconceivable only decades ago.

Oil rigs and nuclear missiles and microwave ovens and the New York Stock Exchange and international phone calls — all work more efficiently than in decades past, but they still feel much the same as they did many, many years ago.

The budget has nearly tripled in the past decade, but even today, it is $ 3 million below the threshold set by Pless 10 years ago.

Stand by your man: More than a decade ago, Manuel Uribe, now weighing 1,200 pounds (the equivalent of five baby elephants) and bedridden for the past five years, was abandoned by his wife because she was frightened by his increasing size.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

In the past decade innovation has taken researchers from sequencing the human genome, in 2001, to synthetically creating a bacteriophage in 2003, to just three years ago, turning one type of bacteria into another by genome transplantation.

No matter where hydrinos fit in on the scale of believability, Mills told C&EN a decade ago that BLP had moved past the scientific verification stage and was interested only in discussing commercial applications.

Flying under the accounting radar Derek Scissors, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, questioned whether looking at the past decades is a useful comparison, particularly for hydro development, since industrialized countries like the United States built their dams decades ago.

Scientists discovered the antibody more than a decade ago, but it's only in the past five or six years that they've been able to isolate it and reproduce it in a lab, allowing them to manufacture it for injection.

Although ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) was first described more than 140 years ago, most major advances in understanding the disease have come only during the past decade or so.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

Results The number of physician - scientists in the United States has been in a steady state for the past decade, but funded physician - scientists are significantly older than they were 2 decades ago.

People have been digging up human fossils for more than 150 years, and yet the past decade alone has seen a string of spectacular discoveries, from fossils that push back hominin origins millions of years to a separate species of Hobbit - sized hominins who were alive just 17,000 years ago.

I was hounded by elected officials, threatened with violence and more — after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere's average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years.

Over a decade ago in Edmonton, Alberta, Jessica Fergusson and Jai Kai were the first yoga nidra guides I encountered, but I actually had no idea what I was doing, nor was I able to make it past my right big toe in the body scan.

Dating is not the same today as it was a decade ago, let alone fifty years in the past.

With the dominance of superhero films in the past decade, it was also quite different in the mid-90's, as Hollywood star Wesley Snipes, who was in a wave of box - office hits that skyrocketed him to superstardom, took a bold initiative to make a film about the Black Panther, which was supposed to release many years ago.

A shameless recycling of clichs and conventions that passed their expiration date more than two decades ago, Godsend is an unwelcome blast from the past.