Sentence examples for astonishing string of from inspiring English sources
He has something of a nest egg certainly, from his astonishing string of hits starting in 1971 with "Your Song" to his remake of his own "Candle in the Wind," which he performed at the funeral of his friend Diana, Princess of Wales, in September 1997.
It was the latest in an astonishing string of reported cases of indigenous women being denied adequate medical attention at public hospitals in Mexico.
More recently there has been the Scottish inspiration of Tree of Strings, an astonishing string quartet he composed in 2007 that refracts the warp and weft of the bagpipes' pibroch, music that's tied to the highland barrenness of Raasay, an island off Skye where Birtwistle lived in the 1970s.
So here is Dynamo (AKA Steven Frayne) in New York, in a puffa jacket, embarking on another string of quietly astonishing somethings, including making mobile phones ring spontaneously and turning a basketball into a rugby ball.
James Blood Ulmer hit New York like a moon rock in the 1970's, originally coming out of working-class Hammond organ music and adding a new flavor to the loft-jazz scene, playing alongside Ornette Coleman and eventually making a string of his own astonishing records.
Newly re-elected Fifa president Sepp Blatter has launched an astonishing attack on the US justice system and the British media in the wake of the string of bribery charges against senior officials that plunged world football into chaos last week.
At the time, it seemed an astonishing claim to make about a system that was producing medal after medal and had a constant string of talent coming through the ranks.
While impressive, Howard's performance was hardly astonishing when compared to that of his Mexican counterpart Guillermo Ochoa, who all but morphed into an octopus with a string of seemingly ridiculous saves in the face of an onslaught from Brazil.
It unearthed the astonishing facts that White was not on Hanson's board, that the company owned three of White's racehorses, and that the group had a string of companies in tax havens.
Two-kilometre string of firecrackers?
