That any traces at all remain from so long ago is astounding, and anyway it is not the completeness of the fossil record but its consistency that matters.
That leaves only filling the crown, presenting it to the guests and then hearing the same hush fall over the room that I remember from that wintry English Christmas so long ago.
People from Sweden, the old rival and not so long ago far richer than Norway, stream in to work.
Now in a new book Malkiel moves on to extol the virtues of global portfolio diversification--in index funds and actively managed funds -- at a time when many investors are licking their wounds from Southeast Asia, Russia and, not so long ago, Latin America.
So seven years ago, a bartender from Long Island had the same idea.
Indeed, it wasn't so long ago that Google was stealing top talent from Microsoft to fuel its growth spurt.
So scientists can clock how long ago HIV diverged from its chimpanzee ancestor.
Indeed, it wasn't so long ago that Google was stealing top talent from Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) to fuel its growth spurt.
Not so long ago Burberry management couldn't have imagined getting respect from anyone under, say, 50.
Not so long ago most products were produced using a handful of atoms from the periodic table, like copper, iron, nickel, and aluminum.
Not so long ago Burberry's management couldn't have imagined getting respect from anyone under, say, 50.
Nonetheless, when, not so long ago, Ben Okri and his editor, Maggie McKennan, moved from Random House to Orion it still caused waves.
"Not so long ago people couldn't work here because armed groups extorted money from them, or they were simply killed for taking bids from the Americans, " he says.
In his onslaught on these armed groups, Mr Maliki, not so long ago widely dismissed as weak and sectarian, has won rare support from most of the main political parties across the spectrum Kurdish, Sunni and Shia.
And so, arguably, three, four, five years ago people became unmoored from their long-term risk tolerances and became purely return-seeking and, now, I think, are in more cases, frankly, being more thoughtful about their capacity to absorb losses.
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.
Not so long ago, in 2002-2003, the Swans finished one point clear of relegation from the fourth tier of English soccer and into the semiprofessional ranks outside the Football League.
"It wasn't so long ago that Tony Blair was complaining about the 'scars on his back' that he received from NHS workers, " said Mr Edmonds.
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