Sentence examples for monumental year from inspiring English sources

The clearest conclusion of this book is that 1979 happened, by chance, to be a monumental year.

It has been a monumental year for the pair, Adlington claiming gold in the 400 metres and 800m freestyle in a new world record in Beijing.

"It's a monumental year, we want to finish as high as possible," said the scrum-half Chris Cook, scorer of their first try.

"Complacency is the enemy of social progress," Glaad CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis said with the release of the report earlier today, adding: "2015 was a monumental year for the LGBT community, but marriage equality is a benchmark – not a finish line".

2011 has proven to be a monumental year so far for professional social network LinkedIn.

It's been a monumental year for Champion.

It's been a monumental few years for the 21-year-old Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, who recently won the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein competitions and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic.

A big statement to begin this most monumental of years for English rugby.

Still, any sense of this being anything other than a brief bout of breakup sex was quickly extinguished by the news that Jason has been seeing Grace for a monumental three years, suggesting this was anything but a brief fling.

David Oyelowo, whose family came originally from Nigeria, will play the title role in Henry VI Parts I, II and III, when the company continues its monumental two-year run through Shakespeare's Histories - entitled This England - during the autumn.

For most Indians, neither Compton nor Pietersen will matter very much compared with their national idol, Sachin Tendulkar, who has hinted that this might be the final series of a monumental 23-year record that has brought him almost every significant batting record.