Sentence examples for major for instance from inspiring English sources

A chemistry major, for instance, would earn more money as a chemist than as a chemistry teacher.

But I also feel that I could contribute vitally to society even if I were a liberal-arts major, for instance majoring in writing for television.

A history major, for instance, with a $10,000 ISA would be expected to pay 3.72percentt of his salary for nine years, according to the comparison tool.

They even controlled for area of study, noting that a kinesiology major, for instance, might be more likely to exercise than a student studying another subject.

If you are bold enough to select what is known in the cell phone business as a "ring melody" -- the opening notes of "Fur Elise" or Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major," for instance, brace yourself for a little snickering from fellow commuters or neighbors in Starbucks.

An English major, for instance, scores heavily by writing on, let us say, "Costumes in Pre-Elizabethan Drama" or "Imagery in Albert Payson Terhune," while a budding historian might do well to consider "Problems in Ethiopian Diplomacy, 1937-39," always keeping the focus sharp and narrow.

Business majors, for instance, outnumber liberal arts majors by as much as seven to one, depending on the definitions used.

He makes significant distinctions only when it comes to subject areas, deriding the humanities as "Mickey Mouse" majors, for instance.

The world has many very able biologists, computer scientists, and economists — and business majors — for instance, and hardhearted though it may sound, it has little need for those who are unable to attain reasonable mastery as majors in such fields.

A surprising number of senior managers have always championed the hiring of young people who seem unlikely candidates for corporate life: theater majors, for instance, or campus activists with mediocre grades, or eccentric computer prodigies with few social skills.

Kantrowitz is particularly alarmed by the number of students overborrowing to pay for an undergraduate degree in fields that historically don't pay well -- majors, for instance, like theater, religious studies or art history.