Sentence examples for colossal advance from inspiring English sources

Presented with unexampled access, a colossal advance, and the subject of a lifetime, he kept drilling holes and, he thought, coming up empty: no gusher of revelation, no mother lode of meaning.

Ms. Godoff has admirers, who praise her literary savvy, and she has detractors, some of whom point to the colossal advances that she, like many other editors, occasionally paid authors.

Another received a colossal book advance from a mysterious source.Outsiders are nervous about the second-biggest new EU member.

For now she is free, enriched by a colossal book advance (reportedly $4 million), and she recently completed a well-orchestrated round of TV appearances.

Housing starts have since collapsed by 90% and the struggling banks can no longer "extend and pretend" the unpaid interest on the colossal loans advanced to developers.

Frankie's achievements – first three singles all No 1, a double debut album with advance sales of more than a million – are colossal.

Cephalopod molluscs, such as squid, cuttlefish and octopus, are among the most neurologically advanced of all invertebrates and either the giant squid or the colossal squid is the largest known invertebrate species.

The glacial flow eventually formed a colossal ice shelf of 4,800 square miles, creating a backstop against its tributary glaciers, resisting their advance into the ocean.

THE triumph of Kitty Hawk came at the end of almost a century of serious attempts to master the sky, a period studded with progressive advances in engineering and understanding of the principles of flight -- and by colossal failures.

Lu saw the makings of a splashy new deal: he offered Han an advance on his next book of two million yuan, about a quarter of a million dollars — colossal by Chinese standards.

Over the last hundred and fifty years, there have been colossal strides in different areas of science and society which have been translated into massive technological advances.