Sentence examples for astonishing area from inspiring English sources

"It contains evidence of continuous human settlement through many civilisations including the Assyrian, Roman, Arab – it is an astonishing area to work in and one of the most important in the world," she said.

They are home to an astonishing array of wildlife and areas which wildlife organisations have identified for their importance on a landscape scale," he said.

They have provided China's "factory to the world" with its machine-tools.The Mittelstand dominates the global market in an astonishing range of areas: printing presses (Koenig & Bauer), licence plates (Utsch), snuff (Pöschl), shaving brushes (Mühle), flycatchers (Aeroxon), industrial chains (RUD) and high-pressure cleaners (Kärcher).

This is altogether an area of astonishing diversity.

Several women have made astonishing contributions in this area, from Barbara Hepworth, who has just had a new museum dedicated to her in her native Wakefield, to Elisabeth Frink, Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse.

ROBERT A. MCCAFFREY, who has lived all of his 67 years in Garrison, across the Hudson River from the United States Military Academy at West Point, can recount stories of buyers who moved in, lured by the astonishing beauty of the area, and then within a year sold their homes and left for someplace closer to supermarkets and other suburban amenities.

Three of the participants, including Claire, stopped hearing voices all together, and almost all those who completed the course of six sessions reported that the frequency and severity, or stridency, of the voices they heard had been significantly reduced - an astonishing achievement in an area of mental health where progress has been stalled for many years.

Nor is it simply a matter of names (though it is astonishing to see local areas in their original spellings, not just Breuckelen and Haarlem, but also Midwout, Nieuw Utrecht, Gavesande).

But this strikes me as very elitist, very sniffy and snobbish about much of the great good that comes with technological democratisation: far too dismissive, for example, of the ways in which the last few decades have seen an astonishing opening up of areas which through most of history were the province of a minority.

During the past three decades, China has experienced explosive economic growth and development, however, China's cataract surgical rate (CSR), which represents the number of cataract operations performed annually per one million of population, is among the lowest in the world and thus lags behind China's astonishing achievement in other areas.

That is astonishing for a country in a deep economic crisis and in need of investment in the crucial area of education.