He said that Livingstone had been "a very considerable public servant and a very distinguished leader of this city".
Turning to Livingstone, standing behind on a platform at City Hall, the new mayor said: "I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.
There's been "a very considerable internal hubbub about Reader's closure", one Googler told me, while a 600-post thread of anger and dismay on highbrow forum Metafilter mirrors outrage across Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere.
"Negotiations have taken, in some countries decades, so this is a decision that's a very considerable period away.
He was "a very considerable servant of the state," Jenkins decided, but he lacked the ability to inspire and left "little ideological legacy".
By the time the cracks begin to open, and Hannah starts to show her own fury, you realise that this is a very considerable performance indeed.
Although there are still some details yet to be fleshed out, the overall shape, and size, of the Treasury's rescue plan is a very considerable step forward in addressing the current problems in the banking system.
"Where you can see these ancient texts there is just a lifting of the spirits … I think those who did the printing in the past would think the scanning was a very considerable improvement, it must have been very hard work.
"My understanding is that it is indeed proving to be a very considerable challenge in Whitehall to do this [drawing up a Brexit plan], that the government has not yet reached the point where … it is still in information-gathering mode and is not yet at the point of integrating that into a central plan.
William E. Brock, the former senator and Republican National Committee chairman who is heading his party's Advisory Commission on the Presidential Nominating Process, said in an interview last week, "There is a very considerable number of states that feel they have no voice, and frankly an awful lot of people feel they have no effective voice in the selection process".
That's a very considerable distance from Obama's tone in his State of the Union address, where he lumped Iran with North Korea (being so utterly different, they should not be paired) and warned Iranian leaders that they "will face growing consequences.
