Sentence examples for astounding proportion from inspiring English sources

Then, there were television performers, who furnished an astounding proportion of the paper's stories.

Heaney has been the pre-eminent figure in English language poetry for at least two decades; his books account for an astounding proportion of the total sales of modern poetry.

Confronted with a mess of astounding proportions, Congress fervently debated the election for weeks.

That meant an assignment of astounding proportions, to be capped by a seemingly impossible task.

In a case of genetic thievery of astounding proportions, researchers describe in today's Nature how a hot-springs bacterium snatched nearly a quarter of its genes from another species.

"Gatsby" was republished in 1941, and its enshrinement steadily assumed proportions as astounding as they are, even today, painfully ironic: "Gatsby" now sells more copies in a month than it sold in Fitzgerald's lifetime; the BBC has just filmed a fourth version of the book, whose author died while struggling to earn a living in Hollywood writing screenplays.

That's astounding.

But then something astounding happened.

"It was astounding," Mora said.

That's astounding to me.

I thought that was astounding".