Sentence examples for largest advances from inspiring English sources
Mr. Greenspan noted that productivity growth over the last year "will almost surely be reported as one of the largest advances, if not the largest, posted over the past 30 years".
Michael Cox's 1850s murder mystery The Meaning of Night, published this September, secured one of the largest advances ever given to a first-time novelist, while Jane Harris's debut The Observations is currently receiving widespread attention.
It was this kind of passage that persuaded Davidar to give Rao what the publisher describes as one of the largest advances in Indian history--something on the order of 100,000 rupees, or $2800 at current exchange rates.
In the mid-nineties, when Murdoch was negotiating with Congress to fend off a challenge to his Fox station licenses brought by the N.A.A.C.P. and NBC, HarperCollins signed a $4.5-million 4.5-millionontract with Speaker Newt Gingricontractof the largest advances ever for a current officeholder.
Major indexes posted their largest advances since November, leading some to believe the market is predicting an economic turnaround in the near term.
Largest advances in device performance have been brought about by improving the intermixing of the donor and acceptor materials, which promotes charge transfer and allows for efficient charge transport via the establishment of interpenetrating networks.
'The Sisters Rosensweig' had the largest advance in Broadway history," for a play (not a musical).
Nonpetroleum costs rose 1.1 percent in January, the largest advance in that category since April 2008.
Xerox recorded the largest advance in the index as at least three analysts raised their ratings on the company.
[C9.] Consumer inflation rose 0.3percentt in August, the largest advance in four months, lifted by higher prices for energy products, clothing and tobacco.
The strategy sometimes pays off: the Broadway incarnations of "The Producers" and "Sunset Boulevard" have enjoyed some of the largest advance ticket sales in history, though "Sunset" ultimately closed deeply in the red.
