His four-volume Evangelion has sold 6.5 million print copies since it was animated for television two years ago.
It made a full-out bid for Novell two years ago and also taken stakes in Brocade Communications Systems and Compuware.
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"We want to create the Sundance festival for game developers, " says Canessa, who came up with the idea for Arcade two years ago.
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But when it comes to contract terms, the aggressively-priced proposal that won the work for Oshkosh two years ago has now come back to haunt it.
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Alex Kazim, a former eBay executive who ran Skype and headed up marketing and business operations for PayPal, came up with the idea for Ongo two years ago after becoming frustrated with the low quality of most news sites.
For example, two years ago we rolled out an initiative for our 40th anniversary to log one million volunteer hours at local schools instead of throwing a party or giving people key chains.
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Jane Heyn, the festival organiser and wife of the British ambassador to Burma, said she first had the idea for the event two years ago, but her plans lay dormant for more than a year, as until recently it would have been impossible for foreign writers to be granted visas to attend.
For example, two years ago Rhode Island sought and received a waiver proposing a capped federal financial obligation for significantly more state flexibility.
Novartis had high hopes for Zelnorm, a new drug it put up for FDA approval two years ago.
Mr Johnson, once a canny trade-union leader, was minister for higher education two years ago when Parliament approved top-up fees.
Because the content of the presentation was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone two years ago.
Chicago was chosen to bid for the Games two years ago by the US Olympic Committee ahead of four other US cities.
Fuelled by the weak pound, which has made Britain much cheaper for Europeans than two years ago, Edinburgh has been enjoying a tourist boom.
He has no qualms about his safety, sitting so high up, but said he would think twice about the seats he had for the race two years ago.
Yet Swansea proved a match for Stade Francais two years ago when Connolly was in charge of the French powerhouses, and the Australian will be hoping they can confound French opposition once again.
Oddly enough, it was the conservatives who first called for local elections two years ago, as a means of getting rid of an official they did not like, and Mr Khatami later adopted the idea in the hope of strengthening his democratic base and decentralising authority.
Just for starters, two years ago, the affirmative action case out of the University of Michigan, you know, she was the person who wrote the opinion that said that the affirmative action policy at the University of Michigan Law School, not the undergraduate school, was constitutional.
Juniper, which did no business for the Air Force two years ago, initially got the work thanks to its technology for converting information into packets (the chunks of information that flow through the Internet).
Mr. Wallace, a sky diver for more than 40 years, did his first jump as Easter Bunny two years ago for Clarity, a small church in Santa Monica, parachuting into a school park as hundreds of kids screamed with delight.
Waste-paper merchants now offer 15 times more for the stuff than two years ago (see chart).
According to Mr Timmons, this is also less than half the spread demanded for such a loan two years ago.
The decision to enter publishing was a reversal for Jobs, who two years ago said that the book business was unsalvageable.
Futurama won its second Emmy for outstanding animated programme two years ago.
That contrasts with maybe 10% for each category just two years ago.
When Mr. Hughes received a request for Moscato from a big retailer two years ago, he searched all over the world for suitable fruit.
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When we met for the first time two years ago, we agreed to take the partnership between our two countries to a new level.
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He's played with his college buddies from Brigham Young University in a league--Hot-Buttered Corn--for 17 years and even won the trophy two years ago.
It is also an argument which was implicitly accepted by a detailed Joseph Rowntree Foundation inquiry into the costs of caring for the elderly published two years ago.
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