It's a municipal solution with results as staggering as they are simple: for a city that currently boasts the highest level of air pollution in all of South America, the single billboard provides as much air purification as 1,200 trees.
Their rise under Dowie was as staggering as it was unexpected last season but a fourth relegation from the Premiership will cast doubt over the manager's future and that of his England striker Andrew Johnson.
As staggering as these numbers are, they only represent a slice of the unemployment picture because millions of people have stopped looking for work and millions more are chronically unemployed and are rarely counted in official measures.
This drop isn't nearly as staggering as the plummet of profits for newspapers with an 80,000-plus circulation, but it's not a cause for celebration either.
A move of just a few miles can necessitate significant adjustments, recent arrivals say, that can be as staggering as grappling with what it means to be the only white face in a particular place for the first time in their lives, or simply adapting to the practice of greeting strangers.
But as staggering as those numbers may sound, they may still be vast underestimates, according to a recent study out of Columbia University that challenged the accuracy of methods used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to determine the status of species. .
It is rare to find a place untouched by war in Iraq, where the carnage was once as staggering as it was numbing.
The resurrection of the Los Angeles Dodgers cannot be measured by the sum of their salaries, as staggering as that total has become.
Certainly her world marathon record of 2 15.25 – set 12 years ago – is every bit as staggering as Bob Beamon's 8.90m long jump or Usain Bolt's 9.58sec 100m.
Almost as staggering as the current enormous influx into cities across the globe is the dramatic slowdown in urbanisation that will follow it.
The commercial accomplishments that she is so obsessed with celebrating are not as staggering as she makes them out to be.
