Sentence examples for a string of seven years from inspiring English sources

He said it meant everything to him that the Rangers had made the playoffs three consecutive seasons, breaking a string of seven years in which they did not.

Last year, almost everything went up in the stock market, ending a string of three years in which the major averages declined each year.

The following year he was one of the aces of the Cubs' staff, accomplishing the first in a string of six years with 20 or more wins per season.

That news comes on the end of a string of thirteen years where attendance went up and revenue went up at a clip of eleven per cent per year.

The 88-year-old company, once known largely for tennis rackets and balls, ended a string of seven money-losing years in 1998 and has since seen big sales and profit increases.

Having that rise to 2003, then to be hit by an immediate injury in the game afterwards, and then to have a string of five or six years' worth of injuries, some of them so far-fetched that you realised it was too random to be random..

On tour they quickly built a national following, which was soon reflected in Seger's record sales, with Live Bullet (1976) staying on the Billboard charts for more than three years and commencing a string of seven consecutive Top Ten albums, including Night Moves (1976), Against the Wind (1980), and Like a Rock (1986).

Chung grew up in Chinatown, New York but moved to the safer Bucks County after a string of three muggings in five years.

The Angels sold a franchise-record 31,000 season tickets in 2006 while they were in the midst of a string of five playoff appearances in seven years.

This weekend Milwaukee police finally cracked the case in a string of eight killings that occurred over 21 years, arresting Walter Ellis, a former inmate in state prison.

After a string of six straight winning favorites, could this be a year in which the winner turns out to be someone like 50-1 Gincomo in 2005 or 50-1 Mine That Bird in 2009?