Sentence examples for losing overnight from inspiring English sources

Earlier, England's tail wagged violently despite losing overnight pair Flintoff and Jones, without either adding to their scores.

"All the progress made will be lost overnight," Callaghan says.

One truck recently malfunctioned and $13,000 worth of seafood was lost overnight.

The signatories of the letter warn that a body of scientific expertise "could be lost overnight" under the restructuring.

Fortunes were made and lost overnight, and business techniques were as crude as you would expect in the 'wild east'.

In a business where fortunes are sometimes made and more often lost overnight, Mr. Cohen steadfastly refused to play the pauper.

Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.

Otherwise, he wrote, "Millennium will be perceived as having deceived the agencies" and the company's "good reputation would be lost overnight".

A young policeman, temporarily lost overnight in the bush with a novice female reporter whilst trying to rescue a fallen climber contemplates the possible consequences of this and the hints of corruption he has experienced.

Each age, you might say, has its own version of tulip fever, when merchants in 17th-century Holland went mad bidding up the price of tulip bulbs and fortunes were lost overnight.

Fighting resumed on the ground, marked by mortar and machine-gun fire, as Afghan tribal troops sought to gain ground -- some of it taken before and lost overnight -- from Al Qaeda fighters.