Sentence examples for a major block of from inspiring English sources

"We were shocked that anyone in this market would let a major block of space slip away".

To pay the tax claim, they offered to sell a major block of stock that Yukos holds in Sibneft, a competitor that it tried and failed to merge with last year.

Many of the developers' misgivings would be allayed if A.I.G., or another company, agreed to lease a major block of space in what would otherwise be a speculative office tower.

Mr. Simmons has said the plan's trustee improperly voted a major block of the shares allotted to the plan's members even though he did not receive voting instructions for that block.

THE announcement by Cablevision Systems Corporation of Bethpage earlier this month that it had signed a long-term lease for a 310,633-square-foot building at 200 Jericho Quadrangle in Jericho has taken a major block of space away from Long Island's already tight office market.

Cisco Systems, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment, is backing away from plans to take a major block of space in the proposed 37-story, 1.3-million-square-foot tower over the north wing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue.

Lack of appropriate model systems is a major block to the study of human hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in humans.

A growing body of 'implementation sciences' literature [ 9] indicates that negative professional attitudes to work are a major block to the successful dissemination of innovations intended to improve patient experiences and outcomes.

As we've seen with the war in Syria and the Ebola crisis, the impact that conflict and natural disasters have on fragile health systems is immense, and is a major block to achieving our shared goal of achieving MDG 4. In Sierra Leone, the chance of a child making it to their fifth birthday was 1 in 6 -- and that was before Ebola.

A major block in the development of small diameter vascular grafts is achieving suitable blood vessel regeneration while minimizing the risk of thrombosis, intimal hyperplasia, suture retention, and mechanical failure.

A total of 144 households were selected from 11 major blocks of the city and HW quantification and characterization were analysed for different blocks/colonies.