Sentences with phrase «person years ago»

I got to meet her in person years ago, and she's truly remarkable and unforgettable.

I had the chance to meet Donna in person years ago and was amazed at her kindness and generosity.

remembering conversations I had with people years ago, some of them long gone from the world, past any thought of my putting things right with them.

You do not once provide any scientific evidence to back up your claims but spout the regurgitated rubbish which was dismissed by all intelligent people years ago.

If the Aboriginal community so desperately desires a release from a wrong to their people some years ago so as to build a bridge of unity between races, why does it not think of the obvious answer which would show the nations of the world how to live in unity and in peace?

We went from about a dozen people a year ago to more than 50 today.

Not exact matches

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

Fifteen years ago, we didn't know what «Cyber Monday» was, but now it's an important piece of holiday shopping (maybe as important as Black Friday to some people).

T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

So, it's not like, here's a famous person and how did you get rich 10 years ago?

To appreciate that, just look at old enterprise software from five to 10 years ago: It was hard - edged, unfriendly software that didn't take the needs of the people using it into account.

HSAs came into existence only two years ago, and many people spend what they place in those accounts each year.

«It was 30 years ago that we met on that terrible TV show,» Cranston told People magazine in 2016.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

The EU competition enforcer estimated a tax bill of about 400 million euros a year ago, two people familiar with the matter had told Reuters at the time.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S..

But a 2015 report from the Kauffman Foundation says startup activity is actually significantly lower among people aged 20 to 34 than it was 18 years ago.

The consensus from psychologists is that the test — invented more than 50 years ago by mother - daughter duo Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers — is too rigid and fails to provide context or leave room for people to change.

Sort of like people in the newspaper business, they'd like to go back to a day 20 or 25 years ago when the internet didn't pose any threat.

A few years ago, around 500 people filled the office, overseeing mining operations that spanned the globe.

When unemployment hit rock bottom a few years ago, few people credited that it would battle back so strongly in the post-recession climate.

Sales people, managers, programmers, and people all over the world are practicing the Pomodoro Technique, the time management method developed by Francisco Cirillo many years ago.

We started seeing ransomware popping up about four years ago in the corporate world, and if you look at the percentages of people who have paid, close to 50 % of them have been attacked again.

When Pyeongchang first pitched itself to host the Olympic games 15 years ago, few people within South Korea could even locate it on a map.

Now this was two years ago, but the feedback was awesome — people loved it, watched it, shared it and keep watching it to this day.

Since starting my podcast a little over a year ago, I've had the pleasure of interviewing some pretty brilliant people about business, money and the idea of success.

In our precinct, there were more people that switched their party affiliation than even caucused four years ago.

Two years ago the FBI asked Apple for access to the iPhone of Syed Farook, who was responsible for killing 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015.

«It's becoming far more common, people are having their kids older and they're using these technologies that weren't available to everybody 20 years ago,» said H&R Block senior tax professional Valorie Elgar.

When Grace Antonio, manager of support operations, joined the company nine years ago, it consisted of all of 20 people.

A few years ago at an SXSW conference, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said something so uncharacteristic for a scientifically - minded, tech entrepreneur, it made many people do a double take.

A few years ago video resumes, where people sat in front of webcams spelling out their qualifications and showing a bit of personality, were all the rage.

Not surprising, the firm has expanded within Canada's borders, adding a five - person Toronto office about a year and a half ago.

Forty - six years ago this summer, Neil Armstrong and Edwin «Buzz» Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon.

«There weren't really any brands that consumers trusted or that were really iconic, and there weren't really any products that people were using that made the process any easier than it was 50 years ago.»

«I remember meetings years ago where you listened to what people had to say, you respected it, and you took notes.

Since most people who haven't been to Burning Man seem to be confused by what it actually is, here are some photos that sum up my trip two years ago.

A lot of people counted them out two and a half years ago, and although I don't know that there's been major product innovation, they've definitely kept costs down and have succeeded greatly.

According to Constant Contact, 84 percent of people say that the biggest difference in small businesses between now and five years ago is the use of more online marketing tools.

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

Sergeant Alex Sobolewski of the West Midlands Police, who is based at Brierley Hill about 130 miles (210 km) northwest of London, said a large part of his work now concerns people trafficking, a crime barely discussed five years ago.

That was some 30 years ago and I always remember people at the time saying how impressive it was that this young man had somehow gotten a loan, bought a business, and was running it successfully.

BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

«Many of the people are still here from 30 years ago — Mary Shepherd and I started [Cycorp] in August of 1984 and we're both still working on it,» Lenat said.

Despite inflation making our lives more expensive every year, people in these 10 occupations are actually earning less, on average, than they were half a decade ago.

«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

Harvey has drawn comparisons with Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 12 years ago, killing 1,800 people and causing an estimated $ 108 billion in damage.