Not very long ago, Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart had the world at their feet.
Not very long ago this event would have served as an extended happy hour en route to an epic night of some sort.
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Not very long ago, coal bed methane, which currently accounts for almost 10% of all U.S. natural gas production, was considered too expensive for commercial production.
It used to be, not very long ago, that you needed to hire an illustrator or designer to help you create one of these files or images.
You know, not very long ago when inflation was in the 1, 000's of percentage points it was not a country where it was easy to believe in the future.
Indeed, many remember a time not very long ago when yields in German bunds and U.S. Treasurys were close to double-digits and have factored such returns into their long-term financial planning.
"Not very long ago I would have said a man would wear a beaded bracelet in only a casual way, but now with so many on offer, they seem to be available for every occasion, " he adds.
Once, not so very long ago, private individuals could not get access to photocopy machines except at certain government offices, such as the Post Office of Public Libraries.
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Not so very long ago, America was the destination for capital and talent.
It is easy now to be complacent about Europe's current relative stability, forgetting just how unlikely this seemed not so very long ago.
One responder to a CNN article about the IMF forecast made a reasonable comparison of the current China syndrome to the anxiety that Japan generated in the United States not so very long ago.
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Not long ago they beat a very decent Nottingham side so we know that we will have to raise our game and be at our very best.
It was not too long ago that members of this very committee would have bristled at the thought of funneling U.S. subsidies to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
While today we are a successful growth company executing on a powerful vision, not so long ago, SAP was faced with the very unpleasant task of cutting 3000 people from its payroll worldwide when software sales dropped sharply during the economic crisis in 2009.
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