Sentence examples for astounding compared from inspiring English sources

More astounding, compared to Shakespeare's prodigal 31,000-word vocabulary, the KJB works its magic with a lexicon of just 12,000 words.

"The amount of wine we go through in a week is astounding, compared to other restaurants of this size," said David Lombardo, wine and beverage director at Landmarc, which seats 100 people.

It also has real race implications, if you think about it: Wealth, which is passed on through generations, is a kind of crystalized history, and the black-white wealth gap is astounding compared to the black-white income gap, which is closer to a 40percentt differential.

The rates of renal death in this aboriginal cohort are astounding compared with those in Western populations.

JetBlue has the highest operating margin in the industry, at an astounding 19.7%, compared to 11.9% for Southwest Airlines, which has the second-highest.

On Saturdays and Sundays, the combined ridership has risen at an astounding pace: 141 percent, compared with 53 percent across the entire system.

And Munder NetNet sucked in an astounding $197 million in January compared with $220 million in 1998.

The pace is astounding, made more so when compared to the snail-like pace of community improvements just 12 months ago.

Additionally, this analysis found an astounding prevalence of bipolar disorder (18.8%) compared to 1.7% nationally (Reeves et al. [2011]).

The tissue sections demonstrated that in advanced stages of breast cancer (Grade III) there was a 4.4-fold increase whereas in giant multinucleate cells, there was an astounding 24.7-fold increase in the surface roughness compared to the control cells from normal breast tissue.

Although I wasn't a particularly impressive figure on the stage compared to someone like Peter Cook, who was an astounding genius.