Sentence examples for by staggering amounts from inspiring English sources

Angola has an international reputation as a country plagued by staggering amounts of high-level graft.

Production in exporting countries around the world is off by staggering amounts.

"Things like this work best when New York is on top and fueled by staggering amounts of money," he said.

What the industry has slowly accepted over the past decade is that the biggest winners win by staggering amounts compared to their competitors.

After the hurricane, the labor force diminished and wages decreased by staggering amounts.

A year later, Greene lowered his personal best in the 100 by a staggering amount in an event in which improvement comes grudgingly by hundredths of a second -- from 10.08 seconds to 9.86 -- equaling Lewis's fastest time in a career that produced nine Olympic gold medals.

During the period of growing disparity of incomes and wealth described by Piketty, this differential between financial sector wages has increased by a staggering amount.

In California, with at least seven tightly contested races that could decide control of the House, Democrats seeking to win seats in areas long held by Republicans are raising staggering amounts of money.

But if he is to attack the debt mountain, he will have to raise taxes, and by a staggering amount.What is now powering the government's ever-deeper descent into debt is the growth in its social-security and health-care bills.

It has been posited that the pressure on kindergartners to succeed stems from their getting an earlier introduction to basic skills due to the prevalence of day care over the last several decades; a service necessitated by the staggering amount of households in which both parents work.

The result is tepid economic growth at best, fueled by massive, trillion dollar per annum deficits that require staggering amounts of borrowing by the U.S. Treasury to stave off national insolvency.