"Barney's got an immense knowledge and background in cycling.
"The demand for people with that background is immense whether it's renewable energy, or engineering, or areas of science, and there's good money to be made by people," he said.
This reorganisation was taking place against a background of immense change in how medicine was practised in the UK, due to the advent of the National Health Service (NHS).
Analogously, it was in deliberate counterpart to the truly immense wealth of his family background, to the opulence of his upbringing in late imperial Vienna, that Wittgenstein embraced asceticism and even destitution in regard to material circumstances.
Updike: Against the background of the immense claims that have been made for the novel in America in the last twenty years — and it is often spelled with a capital "N," Novel — we do believe in it as the ultimate vessel for truth-telling and artistic expression.
Obama's background and his immense talents lend themselves perfectly to targeting, attacking and fixing the great domestic issues of our time.
As the creative director at Alexander McQueen — a role she reluctantly inherited after McQueen's suicide in February 2010 — she not only worked in his immense shadow, but also preferred the background to the spotlight.
If you look at a Pixar movie, the technical background to those films is immense, but the audience shouldn't care about that.
Now the numbers are roughly even (in fact women are earning more degrees) and people tend to pair up with mates of a similar educational background.Women have made immense strides in the workplace, too.
Finally, about an hour later, the vehicle blocking the main gate moved and people came flooding through as an immense cloud of black smoke billowed in the background.
