Sentence examples for great spike from inspiring English sources
The price of wheat had been falling since the last great spike in 2008, but in April, Guy Lapointe seeded 2,200 acres of hard red spring wheat anyway on his rolling land in Alberta.
"Fortunately, we bought an apartment we love before the great spike," he wrote in a recent e-mail message, "which is not to say we haven't spent afternoons at the open houses of even more desirable properties, luxuriating in the expansive promise of spare rooms — a library! — and later running the numbers on 'how much house can I afford' Web sites".
The final level of public understanding, after a four-month campaign, is well illustrated, says its new report, by the great spike on 24 June in the number of people googling "What is the EU?" "We would argue," say the authors, "that the levels of knowledge reported by members of the public were too low throughout".
Packaged in a multi-faceted art deco bottle, with a great spike of a lid inspired by calligraphy pens and the Ballerina Ultima – the highest heel Louboutin has ever designed, as part of a collaboration with David Lynch – it will no doubt take pride of place on dressing tables the world over.
The great spike in commodity prices starting at the end of the 1990s has not been significantly reversed along the global downturn, remaining on average not far from their 2008 levels (Chart 1).
"We saw a great spike in necessity-based entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Ireland in the last year," said Donna J. Kelley, one of the authors of the study, who is also a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College.
Foer details the copious amounts of pig shit sprayed into the air that result in great spikes in human respiratory ailments, the development of new bacterial strains due to overuse of antibiotics on farmed animals, and the origins of the swine flu epidemic, whose story has gripped the nation, in factory farms.
His favorability among Republicans leaped from sixteen per cent to fifty-seven per cent, a greater spike than that of any other candidate's début.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 4 — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates heard appeals on Tuesday from Afghanistan's most senior government and military leaders for more money, weapons and security trainers as 2007 brought the greatest spike in insurgent violence since the Taliban and Al Qaeda were routed six years ago.
The frank reality is no one believes that the mission is working but no one dares pull it out because they fear the moment it goes there will be an even greater spike in violence and the security council will be held responsible.
Which event caused a greater spike in tweets this year, the Japanese earthquake, Steve Jobs' death, or Beyonce's pregnancy announcement at the MTV Music Awards?
