Sentence examples for big blackouts from inspiring English sources

Brazil suffered 91 big blackouts during 2010, up from 48 in 2008.

The big blackouts over swathes of India in the summer of 2012 were widely blamed on its burgeoning middle class's desire to keep cool.

But there is reason to believe that BPL might finally start to live up to its potential, thanks to an unexpected ace in the hole that DSL and cable do not have: the big blackouts that hit North America, London and Italy last summer.

Not to mention the big blackout.

Carson Taylor, BPA's chief transmission expert, explains that the impetus for this experiment was a big blackout in 1996.

Almost all the fancy stores on Fifth Avenue were still shuttered yesterday afternoon, Day 2 of the big blackout.

Will the public again have to sue the vice president, this time to learn what caused the big blackout?

We made big blackout blinds out of paper [for the classroom] – if you make it a bit dark, it's more exciting".

After successive dry years, in 2001-02 Brazilived lived through an apagão ("big blackout"), when electricity was rationed, hitting the economy hard.

How can the public take seriously the Bush administration's promises to investigate the big blackout of 2003 (front page, Aug. 20)?

Across the region affected by last week's big blackout, co-op boards, homeowners and landlords were contemplating whether backup juice was the next must-have comfort.