Sentence examples for approached record highs from inspiring English sources

The Expos have six games left there, just as their support in Montreal has approached record highs and they are scrapping to become a playoff team.

The cost of insuring a basket of Western European sovereign debt eased a little around the time of a summit meeting in Brussels at the end of October, but it has once again approached record highs.

PAGE B1 TENSIONS RISE IN SPAIN Spain's borrowing costs approached record highs as investors fretted over how the government would find more money to bail out Bankia, the country's largest mortgage lender, and other troubled banks.

MADRID — Spain's borrowing costs approached record highs on Monday as investors fretted over how the government would find additional money to bail out Bankia, the country's largest mortgage lender, and other troubled banks.

Gas prices are approaching record highs.

Subway ridership has reached its highest levels since the 1950s, officials said, and commuter train ridership is also approaching record highs.

Gas prices are approaching record highs, but so far most Americans do not appear to be drastically cutting back their driving or even their spending as they did in 2008.

Corn yields are forecast to be approaching record highs this year.

Stocks climb, approaching record highs again.

With real GDP in decline, the nationwide unemployment exceeding 10% and heading towards 20% and interest rates on Spanish sovereign debt approaching record highs, the federal and regional governments began to engage in increasingly severe budgetary cutbacks.

Despite talk of inflation--and of recession, its associate in spookery--the public just couldn't stop spending, and the level of installment debt, mortgage debt and credit card delinquencies approached record-high levels.