Analysts are quick to point out that the national supermarket landscape is little changed from a few years ago.
Sixty percent of the country's employers offer insurance today, but that is down 9% from a few years ago.
It's an amazing turnaround from a few years ago when there were just a handful of native birds left in Wales.
And with median family incomes still down from a few years ago, high markups on items are still a pipe dream in many cases.
An article in JAMA from a few years ago looked forward to the next 50 years and addressed the growing problem of A Fib.
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Still feeling the sting of the oil price crash from a few years ago, BP and other industry giants are watching their dollars, but they're still spending.
What a change this is from a few years ago.
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While the visual of 22-year-old bloggers lashed to their laptops 14 hours a day is a hard one to shake, life at Gawker these days is very different from a few years ago.
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David Cameron, the Tory leader, went from university into the party's research department and, apart from a few years studying the dark arts of public relations, has been in politics all his adult life.
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Unlike biologists, linguists do not have fossils to guide them through the past (apart from a few thousand years of records from the few tongues spoken by literate societies).
This is a big change from just a few years ago when people would buy just about anything with a certain logo on it.
The project also highlights Turkey's growing involvement in the region, a marked change from just a few years ago when ties were strained over Ankara's battle against Kurdish insurgents seeking self-rule in Turkey.
But the industry has a large offsetting advantage: It is still rebounding from a shakeout a few years ago after environmentalists forced paper companies to stop using chlorine as a bleaching agent (many shifted to supposedly greener hydrogen peroxide).
First of all, the commercial landscape has shifted dramatically from just a few years ago.
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They also have 11 candidates for the state legislature, up from three a few years ago.
The Fox case stems from broadcasts a few years ago where celebrities uttered expletives on live TV.
She told peers how she and her husband had purchased a car from Cambridgeshire Police a few years ago.
As cave bears and wolves from a few million years ago were bigger than their descendants, they were probably quite a bit slower than they are today.
Ms. Felice received a letter from her pediatrician a few years ago stating that because the family chose not to vaccinate, it needed to find another doctor.
It made a billion debt bet to acquire gasoline distributor Esso from Exxon Mobil a few years back and last year signed a joint venture with Shell to produce and distribute both ethanol and gasoline in Brazil and, indeed, around the world.
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It's interesting that Nintendo chose this year to unveil the controller ahead of the console, a 180 degree twist from the E3 unveil a few years back, where we saw the console first.
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This is a big turn-around from what was expected a few years ago when the industry appeared to be expanding slowly.
The last great player, China, would emerge from its turmoil a few years later.
On average they are now down to about 10% from 12% a few years ago.
Microsoft walked away from net neutrality a few years ago, declaring it a policy the company was no longer pursuing.
The stock is currently trading at 40 cents, down from double digits a few years ago when it received FDA approval.
As a result, its U.S. share of sales has declined to 45% last year from 70% a few years ago, Cheh said.
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Mr Galton reckons that 35% of the primary-school day is now spent on whole-class teaching, up from 15% a few years ago.
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