Sentences with phrase «times last year as»

We saw this happen at last three times last year as the races ended at COTA, Road America and Petit Le Mans, Corvette Racing's twitter account fails to update fans on how the C7.R finished in its class.

But you never know until it's over, I could have felt the same way at times last year as well.

As Chris Around the World notes in Frommer's, only about 7 % of travelers use Twitter when planning trips, but that number has doubled from this time last year as travelers discover the hundreds they could be saving by following just a few key Tweeters.

Zipbuds, the company that had decided to battle with tangled headphone cords, first introduced its zip - able earbuds around this time last year as a Kickstarter campaign.

A recent report by trade magazine The Grocer says that the price of popular fish such as plaice, whiting and haddock is up by around 50 % on this time last year as trawlers have been grounded.

Not exact matches

LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

It's five times as many people as watched the Super Bowl last year, and twice as many as Twitter has on its entire platform.

Perhaps equally surprising is Amazon's placement near the top, considering last year's reporting by the New York Times that characterized it as having a hostile work environment.

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

As the always - incisive Bryan Roberts, framed it for me in a conversation around this time last year, hospitals «are essentially big capital assets trying to stuff people through them.»

It was a first - of - its - kind move from the streaming giant, which may have taken its inspiration from the traditional TV networks that have used the post-Super Bowl time slot to promote new TV series or special episodes (such as last night's long - awaited This Is Us installment on NBC) for years.

One of the reasons these extremely good times can't last is that most households simply aren't being paid enough to go on driving economic growth as they have in recent years.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

Sure, the world has changed over the last 90 years, but that time period does include periods when interest rates were every bit as low as they are today.

It makes little sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis of time — or, as one of my students put it, «showing up.»

Ride - sharing app Lyft, which has seen its market share surge in the last year as rival Uber has struggled, is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time with plans to launch in Toronto.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

The company embarked on an intensive research process during which time Gebbia visited Jordan, Macedonia and Greece, as well as major refugee camps in Kenya and Rwanda, and joined President Barack Obama's Leaders» Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis during the UN General Assembly last year.

The fine, as reported by the New York Times, was levied under rules issued last year that ban not only short - term apartment rentals, but even the advertising of such opportunities.

The company showed off early prototypes at last year's show, so this year we'll be getting much more detail as well as, I'm sure, some hands - on time.

As we approach the heaviest shopping season of the year, many of us will do our holiday shopping from the comfort of our homes, taking advantage of the Cyber Monday deals, or praying Amazon makes that last - minute delivery in time for gift giving.

«She then finished her last year and a half as a part - time student,» says Kayne.

«After that, I connected with sponsors, and over the last four years I've been able to make a living as a Paralympic athlete and train full time without having to work.»

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal has become a political flashpoint because Republican President Donald Trump vowed last year as a candidate to block it and because of his frequent sharp criticism of news network CNN, owned by Time Warner, including in a new tweet on Wednesday.

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

In addition, everyone is now fretting about an «inverted yield curve,» which is the phenomenon when long - term yields, such as the 10 - year yield, fall below short - term yields, such as the three - month yield or the two - year yield.The last time this happened was before the Financial Crisis.

A warning shot if ever there was one: Nike's sales in Western Europe, Adidas's home turf, grew three times as fast last year as Adidas's.

But over the last few years, careers in social media have exploded as companies realize the value of reaching their customers on the medium where they spend most of their time.

New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.

As The New York Times noted last year, placed next to each other, that's enough pods to circle the planet 10 times Times noted last year, placed next to each other, that's enough pods to circle the planet 10 times times over.

Buffett, who for much of his career avoided tech stocks, has capitalized on that rally by doubling — or, if you will, sextupling — down on Apple stock: He owns six times as much of it now as he did at this time last year, making him one of the iPhone maker's largest shareholders.

«They punch themselves into the market, break glass, upset people and then figure out how to bring everybody together in a more friendly way,» as Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader of research firm Gartner, put it to the Los Angeles Times last year.

The note suggests this period of a «mature» bull market can last for as long as three years, and there could be considerable time left to go.

As he fled through the ember - strewn streets of his neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Jeff Okrepkie knew it was probably the last time he would see his home of the past five years standing.

Last year on the campaign trail, Trump, criticized the proposed AT&T - Time Warner deal and vowed that as president his Justice Department would block it.

Anthony Armstrong, who was a managing director and head of technology in the Americas, left the firm for Morgan Stanley last year, as first reported by The New York Times.

Donald Trump, a frequent critic of Time Warner's CNN, attacked the merger on the campaign trail last year, vowing that as president his Justice Department would block it.

Mobile revenue was more than ten times higher than in the same period last year and accounted for 22 percent of total revenues, as Alibaba continued to successfully ramp up its mobile monetisation.

More than 1,600 companies applied this year — three times as many as last year.

Countless times in the last five years, Cook has been unwilling to remember Jobs as someone he could call a colleague, an equal in an industry where unfairly judging another chief executive's accomplishments has long been fair game.

«Asset values such as the stock market are at all - time highs, every major industry around the world last year grew by more than 20 percent, volatility is at an historic low.

The company last week generated a ton of media buzz when it announced Barbie would come in new shapes for the first time, as well as a second year to make the doll more racially inclusive.

The last time the percentage was as high was 1940, the year after the official end of the Great Depression.

The appointment by Vivendi of two thirds of TIM's board last year, including its CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine as chairman, unnerved many Italian politicians at the time.

Chen clearly feels strongly about them — he took an advertisement in The Times last year that called on the U.S. to accept the islands as Chinese territory.

That means it cost 29 times as much energy to produce Bitcoins last year as it did to power all the Tesla cars driving today.

In the first five months of 2016, there have been at least 23 reported shootings by toddlers, as compared to 18 in the same time period last year.

The best graduation speeches last the test of time, offering wisdom and insight that is just as helpful to a 21 - year - old as to someone at the peak of their career.