Sentence examples for milestone by a from inspiring English sources

Beijing-based Xiaomi expects to sell 100m smartphones in 2015, four years after launching its first model beating Apple to the milestone by a year.

If the design firm misses a milestone by a day, the knives are sharpened and the whips made ready; if the client misses a milestone by a month, it's a mere shrug of the shoulders.

Recently we reached a milestone by securing a consultative status at the United Nations.

"SPL represents a huge policy milestone by taking a symbolic step to enable working fathers to take a more active role in caring for their children," she says.

In November 2005, the bridegroom set a national outdoor milestone by completing a series of ultramarathon hikes — 31 miles or more — across all 50 states in less than 75 days.

On July 15, traffickers hit another chilling milestone by detonating a car bomb in an attack on federal police officers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's deadliest city.

Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, marked the milestone by introducing a new line of attack on the president, accusing Mr. Obama's administration of wasting taxpayer dollars on a reckless investment in the alternative-energy company, Solyndra.

Now, with the departure of the last two remaining journalists from the street of a thousand dreams*, the London Press Club is marking the historic milestone by staging a special long lunch.

Groupon is blowing away Amazon's early revenue and profit milestones by a scary factor, for example.

If baby is missing milestones by a wide margin, parents will likely want to bring up the subject with their child's doctor.

In 1999, Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla marked the same milestone by publishing a pamphlet outlining the cemetery's history and emphasizing the celebrities of yore buried there.