Sentence examples for left a record number from inspiring English sources

Years of spending more than they earn have left a record number of Americans like Ms. McLeod standing at the financial precipice.

With the nation in the midst of a historic joblessness crisis that has left a record number of Americans living below the poverty line, only Nevada and California have higher rates of unemployment.

"Quite frankly, it is unbelievable that the chancellor could find no mention for social care today [after] six years of cuts of social care have left a record number of older people in hospital and the NHS on the brink," he said.

Jennifer Just Woodbridge, Conn., July 20, 2008 • To the Editor: There was one very telling line in "Given a Shovel, Digging Deeper Into Debt": "Years of spending more than they earn have left a record number of Americans like Ms. McLeod standing at the financial precipice".

Senate Republicans also largely refused to confirm Mr Obama's lower court nominees for the last two years of his term, leaving a record number of open slots for Mr Trump to fill.

As Paul Kane noted in his Washington Post column on the day after the national elections, "Many incumbents survived because of a redistricting process that left a record low number of competitive seats, cloistering Republicans and Democrats together into geographically odd -- but politically homogenous districts".

This August, when 52percentt of Italians, a record number, left home for a summer vacation, creativity is at a peak.

On pageant day, Mrs. Horner, the president of the Virtue Club, is described this way, "What's left of her nose after a record number of operations is lost on her hectic face, everything about Mrs. Horner is jumping unless it has been surgically fixed down, and she burbles instructions like a cartoon bird".

ROME — Ending a crushing two-month political stalemate that had spooked European leaders, Prime Minister-elect Enrico Letta formed a rare coalition government on Saturday uniting left and right — and including a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite minister — to steer Italy, with the euro zone's third-largest economy, out of the doldrums.

Mr. Meister and Mr. Gensler are leaving the agency after filing a record number of actions against the financial industry.

The festival's relationship with the city isn't always rosy; this year, many German media outlets, including our THUMP colleagues in Berlin, reported that local authorities searched an unprecedented number of ravers leaving the festival this year, resulting in a record number of drug seizures.