Sentence examples similar to its starting year from inspiring English sources

Rivals have criticised Here for being built on a lot of legacy IP — it got its start years ago as Navteq — that is in need of better updating.

The irony is that the school-reform movement that has been leading the push for higher graduation rates got its start years ago in a struggle to raise academic standards.

Airbnb also criticizes using 2009 as the starting year for its data, saying the financial crisis changed the whole housing market.

But its problems started years before when it approved the creation of not one or two private partnerships but thousands of them.

This month starts year eleven.

China's private sector got its start 20 years ago near Wenzhou, in the lush green hills surrounding the glassy Ou River.

Thirdware got its start 15 years ago with Ford as its first major client focused on enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Casa Cornelia got its start 25 years ago representing asylum seekers from Central America and Africa.

It started its fourth year in the program in July.

Despite its rocky start, "Year of the Fires" "is a pleasure to read," William L. O'Neill wrote here in 2001.

The company's base year of 1996 was also its start-up year, when sales figures are typically small.