a few years ago

Just a few years ago, a fruitful search might have required hunting through page after page of hits for one or two of value.

A few years ago a commission established by Congress called for a goal of one million a year by two thousand seventeen.

Google itself, born in a university dorm and funded on its founders' credit cards a few years ago, serves as a reminder of that.

A few years ago it was not uncommon to see professional golfers drinking till late and going to a game next day with a hangover.

But the lucky ones that do get to the chasm today are going to face a big problem that did not exist just a few years ago.

I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers.

Not such an unusual ambition for many girls these days, except that just a few years ago, Julieth faced a future of only poverty and abuse.

That means most of today's buyers will be able to pick up properties at significant discounts compared with just a few years ago.

Such an attitude would have been hard to find among migrant workers just a few years ago.

A few years ago, one of my very good friends who is an office manager at the company I used to work for unleashed a college tale on me.

I remember seen him a few years ago, but I do not recall where it was to see him.

Investors and customers really believe that Ford is a much better company than it was a few years ago and that has created a virtuous cycle.

Even a few years ago, there was a sense we were dealing with two different worlds, and they would never agree and be able to work together.

I've been interested in photography since I was a kid, but it was only a few years ago that I started collecting photographs.

I found this out for myself a few years ago when I was misquoted on the page and had to ask the editors to make a correction.

A few years ago, I was flying my airplane up to the Door County peninsula in Wisconsin on a beautiful summer day.

A go-getting executive in a multinational company just a few years ago, Kevin Tu, 31, now lives just "one at a time, " as he puts it. Mr.

By comparison, just a few years ago the standard was still a 20-fold format design with a rate of 20 cycles per minute.

A few years ago, you got your map each morning in the newspaper or waited for whenever TV decided to flash one up for a few seconds.

It would have been inconceivable for a boat to be here just a few years ago.

At a memorial service for a distinguished British journalist a few years ago, one of his editors said that he could "make words dance. "

Just a few years ago, such an event would have been almost inconceivable.

It is hard to believe that only a few years ago, this was the humble, sleepy fishing village of Bagan Lalang, in Sepang.

A few years ago I even wrote a post here about the sort of last-straw day that gets me into a 'chuck it all' mood.

From the first day I trained with him in the Holland camp a few years ago, I knew this boy was really something.

It's hard to overstate the rate of change; even recent arrivals point to shopping malls where neighborhoods stood just a few years ago.

The seat back in a few years ago gave you issue the ultimatum, and you do not dare looked down on the seat!

Until Cambodia's post-civil war reconstruction began a few years ago, the Mekong also provided the only form of transport north.

There's little debate over those capabilities, which are clearly superior to what they were only a few years ago, and improving fast.

A few years ago this might have been sorted out quietly as a consular issue. Not this time.

The forces are much better than they were a few years ago; buckling under pressure is no longer a certainty.

Just a few years ago, the U. S. was consumed by a vigorous public debate about healthcare.

As you know, a few years ago I achieved one of my lesser dreams and became a notary public.

A hit like this at GM was almost unthinkable just a few years ago.

Gave the Ministry quite a bit of grief a few years ago.

Just a few years ago, they were a critical factor in the economic booms witnessed in Spain, Ireland and Britain.

A few years ago western buyers would have been queuing up to secure such a prized asset.

This is one I made a few years ago. And you'll notice you see a dark brown tile at the top, and a bright orange tile at the side.

Computing hardware was already heavily commoditized, but, up to a few years ago software was still the realm of the wizards.

A few years ago, a 75-pound stingray leapt out of the Atlantic Ocean at Vaca Key and slammed into a woman, killing her in the process.

A few years ago I discovered I had a very aggressive form of prostate cancer; I was told it might have spread to my spine.

Thus Nicolas Sarkozy a few years ago, when crafting the image of a crusading politician ready to take aim at France's elite.

Despite the numbers, Knowlton said adoption is harder than it was just a few years ago.

Just a few years ago, the Conservative Party was the political home of classical economics.

A few years ago it began to register migrant workers, allowing them, in theory at least, to access healthcare.

They used to be everywhere, but I actually had to search around a few years ago. I think K-Mart finally had them.

A few years ago they were given permanent residency, and full citizenship is now probably only a matter of time.

Around the city, new high-rise buildings are going up where only cornfields stood just a few years ago.

To do those things a few years ago was a bit immoral. But electronics is no longer immoral.

The story starts with an observation, made a few years ago, that senescent cells often produce a molecule called P16INK4A.

In Canada a few years ago a woman who had been a man won the women's downhill mountain bike championship.

A few years ago, a group people of insight gathered together to survey the changing market sagaciously and began to chase their dreams.

Gone are the days, just a few years ago, when the Big Three would give major keynote speeches and send large teams to meet their clients.

A few years ago lasers typically converted less than 40% of the electrical energy used to run them into beam power.

The son of Sandy Weill, ex-head of Citibank, left his powerful job at the bank abruptly a few years ago and checked into drug rehab instead.

The Internet has opened access to information for ordinary Chinese citizens in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago.

But for Joyce Chavis, the problem until a few years ago was that she could not let toddlers in her care step outside her house.

CEO Ng says it's much easier launching a camera company today than it would have been just a few years ago.

The grid is already more open to cyber attacks than it was just a few years ago.

A few years ago, it might have been absurd to look to Google for ideas about the auto industry.

Compared to just a few years ago, private companies are now generally much bigger and easier to do deals with.

My mother moved into a nearby city a few years ago because it was inconvenient for her to live in the village where I grew up.

Ann used to have a piano, but she sold it a few years ago.

There was a moment a few years ago when Britain seemed to have turned the tide of history.

My dear grandmother passed away a few years ago, and I never got to make soy sauce with her.

I had to buy it, ' he says, adding that he would have had to pay twice as much for that home a few years ago.

I remember the British pulling out of the place a few years ago, but I'm not sure what happened after that.

The world is much better prepared today to handle a pandemic than it was just a few years ago.

Her husband passed away a few years ago as well, but she mailed me several photographs of her family that were taken over the years.

What if the price goes back to where it was just a few years ago, at $500 or $600 an ounce?

Just a few years ago, I was doing something that felt, to me, a lot like moving rocks.

Now she knows what pain is. There was a woman crying the same tears a few years ago that she did today, only now it's her turn.

Just a few years ago, in a game between the Lakers and the Heat, Bynum made his presence felt in just a mere 30 seconds of play.

As you can see, one of our parties, you know, a few years ago.

As of a few years ago, it is possible to use Excel spreadsheets that are generated in a Microsoft-specific XML format.

I remember just a few years ago speaking about climate change, and people heckling me in the back and saying it doesn't even exist.

Just a few years ago, it would have been astonishing for a foundation, particularly one as traditional as Carnegie, to publicize a failure.

Economists at HSBC say that the correlations between industrial output and commodity prices began to fall apart a few years ago.

I visited with him a few years ago and he showed me his early work.

His mother was a English woman, left some money for Tane before going back to Britain a few years ago.

A few years ago while visiting New York City, I made a trip up to the observation deck of the Empire State Building.

Jones says the situation represents progress from a few years ago, when the Taliban appeared to have the upper hand and was gaining ground.

a dip in global oil prices during the past week, Americans are paying more than twice as much for gasoline as they did just a few years ago.

When I started my business a few years ago, my older customers tended to be very rich, but now they are what I would call ordinary women.

Known here as "shanzhai ji" , or bandit phones, China's gray market handset industry was virtually non-existent just a few years ago.

Remember a few years ago when cameras captured at least a dozen cars refusing to stop for an injured woman laying in the road?

A few years ago, when my mather was visiting, she asked me to go shopping with her because she needed a new dress.

He got the idea a few years ago. One of his patients asked if someone might be given her pacemaker for reuse after she died.

A few years ago, China's new passion for large cars might have been a curiosity of its new consumer culture.

People might remember a few years ago, we had a fantastic comet, called Comet Hale-Bopp; suddenly came out of nowhere.

People might remember a few years ago, we had a fantastic comet, called Comet Hale-Bopp; suddenly came out of nowhere.

I watched him dispense free advice a few years ago: Get out of the dollar, teach your children Chinese and buy commodities.

Just a few years ago, it was impolite behavior for a man to smoke in the street.

'Then, just a few years ago, I realised it was now me that couldn't get a limp piece of thread through a hole I couldn't see.

Call it 'decoupling' of a variety not many might have foreseen a few years ago.

A few years ago, they might have chosen a piece of jewelry, but this time they have opted for a handbag with a designer tag.

"Coming. " Beth answered, she opened the door. She wore a red robe with her name on it. She got from her grandma a few years ago.

A few years ago, there was no doubt that US capital markets were the gold standard.

A few years ago, just a handful of small businesses used business coaching as a means to augment their business.

"While a few years ago, maybe $75-$80 of every new $100 in reserves would go into dollar assets, now possibly only $65-$70 do, " he said.

That means J. P. Morgan is a stronger company than it was just a few years ago.

Whatever the merits of these points, they were not what these characters were saying only a few years ago about bankers or wealth creation.

China with an annual per capita income of over $1000 is a middle income country though it was a low income country just a few years ago.

Some of these headline-grabbing transactions would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

A Palm rep explained that this was due to @ being a much more frequently used symbol than it was even a few years ago.

I found myself in a similar situation to that of Mr Woodford a few years ago.

The cause of the recent glut of pigs was a reaction to a shortage just a few years ago.

I got to know Mr. Jiang a few years ago while I was teaching British literature to a class of English majors in which he was a student.

Just a few years ago, it would be hard to imagine these people even knowing each other, let alone engaging in a deep collaborative process.

A class like this would have been unthinkable even just a few years ago. Sabri Eyigun is the Kurdish deputy rector of the university.

A few years ago there was one wizard who went as bad as you can go. And his name was V. . . His name was v.

In truth, it has gone better than one might have feared even a few years ago.

She has a son who began experiencing psychotic symptoms a few years ago, and he might have seemed like a perfect fit for her boss's program.

In fact, Kobe Bryant spoke with him a few years ago about the favorable geography of that Bulls team.

A few years ago the projection was that the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free in the summers by about the year 2080.

"This really reminds me of Google just a few years ago, " said Mr Brin, to drive the point home.

A few years ago Europe's leading clubs seemed to be prepared to contemplate a breach with FIFA.

A few years ago a good friend was asked to make a cake for her mother-in-law's father's 90th birthday.

A few years ago, the then Japanese vice-finance minister in charge of all things yen was out with his aide at a Tokyo restaurant.

A few years ago the owner of a local stock trading firm asked me to run a psychological training group for his traders.

The US and China have other common interests, to a degree unthinkable just a few years ago.

Called simply Dalian Development District , localssay the area was a fishing village just a few years ago.

A few years ago I was lucky enough to spot a pair of redstarts in action in a Walsh wood.

Because international banks have imposed stricter controls, a lot more of it stays in Nigeria now than was the case a few years ago.

After all, China is a reforming communist state where private property rights were introduced just a few years ago.

He died a few years ago at the age of ninety-three, in full possession of his keen mental powers.

I think I've met him. On this ship. Quite a few years ago.

This revisits and old drill called 360 Dolphin Rotation that we posted a few years ago, but is now a bit more integrated into the sequence.

Despite my love for the club, I have to say I would probably choose Arsenal over United, just as Aaron Ramsey did a few years ago.

Just a few years ago, curvy elements almost always meant slicing up highly customized imagery and adding extra markup.

A few years ago we did have a branch in Athlone but it had to close for a number of reasons.

I also met Kirk Douglas very briefly a few years ago. I told him how he'd had a huge effect on me.

There was a flicker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession.

A few years ago he said that he would serve his country until his last breath and heartbeat.

So, too, should we recall in today's bitter blue-red, donkey-pachyderm dialectic that just a few years ago, red stood for Marx.

A few years ago, Gateway came out with flat screen TVs.

A few years ago a striking Christmas card was published, with the title, "If Christ had not come. "

This kind of processing enables the creation of applications unthinkable just a few years ago.

Many claimed the noises were just a legend until a few years ago someone concluded that the noises are occassional small earthquakes.

A few years ago I decided to intentionally narrow my professional focus. I would define myself as a photographer, writer, and musician.

Just a few years ago, business schools viewed social media as a distraction.

I was at a party a few years ago for a friend of mine and we ran out of food so he said, "I'll just go pick up some food. "

The new goddess was unheard-of a few years ago and has no basis in any Puranic myth.

Until a few years ago, it would have been considered shameful even to hesitate to help an elderly citizen after a fall.

"Until just a few years ago, the bulk of travelers in Asia were 'suits, ' business travelers, " Mr. Sinha said.

At least, that's what Diamond told me a few years ago.

The land remained part of the Hughes estate until a few years ago, and eventually was sold to a group of Chicago investors.

He was no longer in negative equity with this flat that he had bought a few years ago.

A few years ago, approximately 50 percent of plane trees did not survive in a separate replanting exercise.

A few years ago, nobody ever thought about the concrete possibility of a woman truly donning the green-yellow presidential sash.

'A few years ago the whole company was worth next to nothing, ' he said. 'When you get that kind of value you sell. '

Officials debated how useful one would be in a conflict over Taiwan, the military planners' main preoccupation until a few years ago.

A few years ago I thought the time was right for me to do the same, but it was a mistake.

Until a few years ago, Tete was no more than a dusty down-at-heel stopping point for weary lorry drivers.

Your house is not worth as much today as it was a few years ago.

"This technology can do things now that only a few years ago were thought to be beyond the reach of computers, " Mr. Brynjolfsson said.

As they note, trade imbalances, both China's surplus and America's deficit, have recently been much smaller than they were a few years ago.

France has hundreds of soldiers in the country in a peacekeeping operation, who were sucked into a bloody stand-off a few years ago.

Visiting China was considered an indulgence for most financial executives just a few years ago.

And some things that people took for granted a few years ago, even a year ago, they fear they cannot take for granted any more.

"So much changed just a few years ago, " Hofer said.

In both cases, I don't think I would have noticed or cared just a few years ago.

Just a few years ago, a patient like Kellie would have been written off.

Just a few years ago, when I was a senator, we forged a bipartisan coalition in favor of comprehensive reform.

A FEW years ago, Burger King, a fast-food chain, conducted a study of the eating habits of some of its most frequent customers.

The land however is now in present time whereas a few years ago this was not so.

"Harry told me something a few years ago, " he said abruptly, almost thinking out loud.

A few years ago that was almost unheard of -- you'd be asking for one pipefitter at a time.

A Democrat uttering such sentiments would have been drummed out of the party a few years ago.

A I used to work in Guangzhou, you know. I worked there a few years ago, for about six months.

A few years ago, I tried to take some advice to see how I could control myself.

In Norway a few years ago, the international ski jumping federation was refusing to let women compete in an event there.

"They will go through a . . . vicious circle of debt as they did a few years ago in order to finance their oil imports, " he said.

Just a few years ago, Kishtapur was an example of stagnation and disarray.

Just a few years ago, Mr. Maina said, "solar lights" were merely basic lanterns, dim and unreliable.

This reminds me of something Shane Claiborne said in an interview with Krista Tippett on NPR's "Speaking of Faith" a few years ago.

Think back also to all that stuff a few years ago about the unipolar moment and the new American imperium .

And a few years ago, I realized that I was finally in a position to try to do it.

My sister, who lost a son of 33, told me, a few years ago, that she re-experienced the grief every single day.

Management has less freedom in these areas than it had a few years ago.

Walt Riker of McDonald's claims the makeover it has given to its menu means it offers more healthy items than it did a few years ago.

Until just a few years ago it was known by the more prosaic name of Zhongdian.

If she were trying today to get the loan of 1, 200 sol for a new kiln that she secured a few years ago, she would be disappointed.

It was only a few years ago that we all seemed to be worried about inflation.

Similar to the U. S. , they're weighed down with heavy debts from a housing market that went bust only a few years ago.

A few years ago a young woman named Lisa made a remarkable decision. She decided to switch high schools after her junior year.

The term that we coined a few years ago, precision cosmology, used to be an oxymoron.

A few years ago, traders generally assumed that forecasts could be made by plugging numbers into a spreadsheet.

A few years ago he tried a similar trick, breaking apart space and time in an attempt to explain dark energy.

A few years ago, a friend told me that she had learned that he had drunk himself to death by age 30.

I think Denmark was a bit spoiled a few years ago and played in almost every tournament, even though we are a small country.

Nobody expected just a few years ago that users would pay for playing games online, he points out.

The Harry Potter movie saga is about to end like the Harry Potter book saga did a few years ago.

A few years ago, one of the sharpest and smartest researchers at the Beijing Wall Street Journal bureau won a full scholarship to Columbia.

Just a few years ago, a great archaeological mystery was solved.

The problem is that compared to a few years ago, the speed with which new technologies are coming to the market has increased dramatically.

But the fact is, without bipartisan support, as we had just a few years ago, we cannot solve this problem.

A few years ago it was popular to speak of a generation gap, a disagreement between young people and their elders.

The president of the United States also admitted that "basically, up until a few years ago, I only had four suits. "

The free publication of information that was the privilege of a select few to own until a few years ago is a Very Good Thing.

Such was the case with XML a few years ago, relational databases before that, object- orientation, Java, graphical user interfaces.

A few years ago, nothing in my life was working and I remember feeling really down and out one Sunday evening.

What was the biggest selling drug of all time when it was introduced a few years ago?

Only a few years ago the Spanish capital ground to a halt every August, as offices, shops and bars closed for the entire month.

Just a few years ago, the idea of having a computer in one's home seemed far-fetched for most Chinese.

The conservatives who embraced the word "empire" a few years ago were being deliberately provocative.

We no longer keep up the close friendship of a few years ago, though we still visit each other on occasion.

A few years ago it was thought usual that programs could ever be called up by viewers to be displayed on their TV screens at home.

Yeah, a few years ago I decided to start taking skating lessons. I know it's crazy, and a waste of time, but.

He mentioned when he was in Shanghai a few years ago he saw a small gate with a sign of "Fudan University" beside it.

Consumers might be more prone to making the Internet switch than they were a few years ago, Mr.

Belle Glade's treat to other Americans, like that posed by homosexuals a few years ago, at first seems easy to dismiss.

Cohen also spots some yellow dots, and he says they are "the egg mass of a Japanese sea slug which showed up here a few years ago. "

Mr. Leibovitz got the idea for the book about the boys a few years ago when he was traveling with his wife in China.

Prices are going up so rapidly. Petrol now is twice as expensive as it was a few years ago.

"A few years ago, we expected to see Vietnamese students every few years, " Bryant said.

A few years ago he and his Chinese wife would be surrounded by gawkers whenever they strolled together through her provincial hometown.

It so happened that my colleague Joanne Hyde and I were looking for just such a puzzle a few years ago.

In fact, it's very similar to the plan Mitt Romney introduced in Massachusetts just a few years ago.

Everything that happens is in good faith now and things are different to how they were a few years ago.

A few years ago, several groups of scientists began to seek out new cancer drugs by targeting a protein called KRAS.

Even a few years ago, Chinese politicians treated the issue as an abstract distraction, but they have gone through a thorough conversion.

A few years ago I purchase a copy of the book An Encounter With A Prophet. The author advanced similar ideas about forgiveness.

Car-racing telemetry began to migrate to other sports a few years ago, but mostly to monitor equipment and measure how it is being used.

Political subjects which but a few years ago excited and exasperated the public mind have passed away and are now nearly forgotten .

The first time I taught this class, it was a few years ago, was just before they built the Stata Center.

In a move that Detroiters would have considered heresy only a few years ago, Buick is trumpeting the Regal's German origins.

Renu, Kumar's 27-year-old sister, said he was her closest living relative since their parents died a few years ago.

She discovered her extremely high blood sugar levels a few years ago after a blood test required by an insurance company.

For a late drink try Oxygen in Qeimariyeh, which gained notoriety by throwing out the U. S. consul a few years ago.

A few years ago my parents sent me to the United States, where everything is very strange to me.

Technologies and concepts in the Web tend to be fast moving targets. The Semantic Web is not developed as experts thought a few years ago.

A few are learning Cahuilla, a language that seemed doomed just a few years ago.

When researchers began exploring it as a memory aid a few years ago, they had patients and caregivers look at all the pictures together.

A few years ago, I found a spectacular little condominium for sale for $50, 000 in Phoenix, Ariz.

Even in a few years ago, her parents are not happy to see me now, let alone.

You saw what Craig Bellamy said the other week about what happened to Newcastle when they didn't qualify a few years ago.

"Guests should not expect to prevail in those negotiations the way they might have a few years ago, " Mr. Hanson said.

I came out of a really long-term relationship a few years ago.

Sheldon: Oh, well, a few years ago, he did go out with someone who had a Ph. D. in French Literature.

A few years ago there was an explosion of talent competitions.

Their partnership is growing these days in ways that was unimaginable just a few years ago.

Regardless, the information is as valid today as it was a few years ago.

Until a few years ago, when oil wealth began to spread through the nation, life for most people was very tough.

Such displays have wider viewing angles than they did just a few years ago.

A few years ago I was like some of you reading this overextended, overworked, and deeply unhappy about it.

A few years ago, it was claimed that hurricanes would become more frequent as well as more common in a warming world.

Until a few years ago, a common treatment of tumescence problems was the direct injection of medication into the penis.

The Italian ice-cream maker shut down his bar and retired just a few years ago.

Until a few years ago, HTC only made devices for others, but now it has become a brand of its own.