Sentence examples for milestone this year from inspiring English sources

Russia quietly passed a milestone this year: surpassing De Beers as the world's largest diamond producer.

Even for an institution accustomed to P.R. fiascos, the Pentagon hit something of a milestone this year with its aborted Policy Analysis Market, or PAM.

Pfizer's strategy has been so successful that the company expects to set an industry milestone this year -- eight drugs that bring in sales of more than $1 billion each.

Currently, the leading edge of change in most companies and most sectors is to be found in the social innovation and impact investment space, with one major milestone this year being the tenth anniversary of the Skoll World Forum scheduled in Oxford next month – and work under way on a Social Stock Exchange.

Augmented reality marked a major milestone this year.

Alibaba celebrated another big milestone this year: over one billion packages were shipped throughout the shopping day.

Today, as we cross this milestone 35 years later, there have been countless articles published on HIV and AIDS.

In a 2007 poll by the British Medical Journal, sanitation was voted the greatest medical milestone since 1840.

It is expected to pass something of a milestone early next year when it hatches its 1,000th chick.

There was not much fanfare as Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma reached a coaching milestone yesterday.

Jason Giambi set another milestone yesterday as the host Oakland Athletics ended a six-game losing streak.