Sentences with phrase «was the last time there»

And that was the last time there was a governor who would sign a raise for the legislators — 1999 — and that's how the legislators» salary of $ 79,500 was set.

Dear Elena, I saw these speed - control - systems already in Italy when I was the last time there and as I drove by car through your beautiful country I know what you mean and you have my sympathy for this unpleasant situation... Thanks that you think I look amazing in my outfit, at the moment I love it really to wear white:) You make me happy that you love my Scholl sandals!

But that was the last time there was any real consensus, and one could argue the Return of the King number is a fluke, driven by three years of wonder at Peter Jackson's epic trilogy.

Reduction in innovation: When was the last time there was real innovation in the way lawyers provide services?

Not exact matches

One tribal elder, Juma Gul, told the Times that «the Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children... there was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.»

«One of the last times I spoke with the president, he said Melania had seen me on «Fox & Friends,» and she told him there was this really handsome guy on television talking about him,» he said.

The last time time there was a one - year drop was in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Singapore - headquartered bank DBS declined to reveal total digital red packet numbers, but said that there were five times more e-hongbaos sent last year compared with 2016.

Compared to the design I showed last time, you can see that there's a small delta wing at the back of the rocket.

But there are skeptics that these announcements would ever see fruition, with the Financial Times noting on Thursday that President Donald Trump's deals with the country last year have yet to fully materialize.

At this time last year, there were 986 rigs in U.S. fields.

Last time you were in there you spent way too much money and you're saving for spring break.»

With its yield above 7 % at this time last year, the warning signs were there.

«If investors spent less time listening to the talking heads on BNN and CNBC and more time studying history, they would realize that there is little value added by obsessing about economic growth,» Murray Leith, an analyst at Odlum Brown in Vancouver, wrote last fall.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

But as recommendations for health care reform increasingly dominate the airwaves, there's a frustrating sense of deja vu: many of the problems that were identified last time remain.

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.

There have been reports for some time that Ricky Van Veen — the CollegeHumor co-founder Facebook hired last year — was looking to sign deals with a wide range of media companies, TV networks, and individual artists for anything video related.

The idea that Schefter is putting forth is that there was a team lower in the draft who found this information, and chose to time its release to tank Allen's draft stock at the last second to give that team a shot at snagging him.

The reviews go back a few years, but there were more than from the last week at the time of writing, which indicates the product is rather popular.

There were also 76 million active users, compared to 70.1 at the same time last year.

If you're looking for a last - minute departure for the New Year's Eve holiday, there's still time!

«Even if [House] is there another six or eight months, I would rather they take their time than make the mistake they made last time.»

Some examples are, perhaps the other civilizations aren't interested in communicating or perhaps they don't last very long, so although a lot of them, they come to exist, at any one time, there aren't very many.

Icahn disclosed a 7.13 % stake late last month, at which time he only made formulaic statements made about the shares being «undervalued» and that there would be discussions with the company's management and directors to «improve performance,» pursue «strategic alternatives,» and discuss «board representation.»

But there's another reason why Macklem's odds look very good: the last time a senior deputy governor was appointed Governor was in 1994, when Gordon Thiessen succeeded John Crow.

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.

There's no risk of losing phone service during a power outage (which happened to me five times last year).

«When you have loyal employees who have been with the company for a long time, you have the original spirit that was there when the company started,» explains Lin, who has seen only six employees on his 100 - person staff leave in the last seven years.

I had already seen the transformation (and price appreciation) since the last time I was there.

If there's no new version of that file, it just displays what you had downloaded last time, delivered from what's called the browser's cache.

63 % of all requests to Facebook from Google Chrome were those so - called «conditional requests,» tying up resources for the time it took for the server to tell the browser that, no, there's no new file since the last time you visited.

Both the Eagles and Vikings scored three times in a row in their games last weekend, but we're betting against the trend this time around because I don't think there's going to be a ton of scores in the game in the first place.

«When was the last time you just sat there for a good 10, 15, 20 minutes and just thought?»

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.

Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.

During the last few years of the program's history, there has been $ 5 billion in direct investment and 85,500 directly - created full - time jobs.

Venture capital has largely dried up in Russia — partially because there was so much venture capital activity in the last few years (activity between 2012 and 2013 was 10 times that between 2010 and 2011, Chikhachev says) but also due to some problems inherent in the Russian economy.

• Co-founder Jean - François Gagné sold his last AI company, Planora, to JDA Software and spent time there developing software for Fortune 500 businesses.

«Over the last six to nine months, there have been times we actually liked Russian markets on the back of recovering commodities and oil prices,» he told CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday.

Of course, we all remember that time we complained about a delayed flight but quick, answer the question: When was the last time you thanked your pilot for getting you there safely?

But there is still time to take a last - minute trip this summer.

Although Facebook's website remains one of the Internet's top destinations, there have been early signs that the social network is losing some of its pizazz, particularly among younger Web surfers who are starting to spend more time on other fraternizing hubs such as Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram, a photo - sharing site that Facebook bought for $ 521 million last summer.

An EDC study last year found that Canadian foreign affiliate sales reached $ 508 billion in 2008 and surpassed Canadian merchandise exports to all major world markets except the U.S. «The foreign - affiliate sales we're doing in emerging markets are three times the export North - South trade we're doing there,» says Hall.

The sequels of the crisis are still there: At the end of the last reserve reporting period in mid-April, distress borrowing at the Fed stood at twice the «normal» levels observed during the time preceding the onset of the 2008 crisis.

There was always time for one more beer, one additional story, one last kernel of advice.

«The fact is, there were a lot of small contractors and vendors who got hurt, who went out of business because Trump did not pay contracts on time,» New Jersey state senator Jim Whelan, who was the mayor of Atlantic City during Trump's casino years, told Newsweek last year.

The last time I interacted with Pepper, several months ago, it wasn't there yet.

There were also two military checkpoints the last time I had driven that route.

If there were ever a time when Lyft had a chance to catch up with Uber, it was last year.