Sentence examples similar to preposterous rates from inspiring English sources

The trio played their club football for Peñarol, who had been scoring goals at a preposterous rate: on average, they were rattling home 4.5 goals per league match.

It was not so long ago that the idea that Senator John McCain would even entertain tapping Mitt Romney, his bitterest primary rival, as his running mate would have seemed preposterous, rating at least 7.0 on the strange-bedfellows scale.

Earlier this month, ESPN.com ranked him the 40th best player in the league, an almost preposterous rating for one of basketball's all-time greats.

The rating is preposterous, given the film's carefully understated representations of sex and female nudity.

"Allegations of manipulation of this error rate are preposterous," said the spokesman, Jeff Nelligan.

This sounds preposterous – not because the rate is four times that of the national average, but because it is hard to imagine that anyone is left after the purge that swept through here over the past five years.

As a daily rate, it's preposterous — a red flag.

This is preposterous policy because long-term interest rates mirror inflationary expectations.

Not knowing the error rate is bad enough, but some experts consistently testify under oath that their technique has an error rate of zero, an inherently preposterous claim.

While this may be true at a 75 or 80percentt income tax rate, Laffer's argument is preposterous for the level of income taxes we currently have.

A third-rate TV movie with ham-acting and preposterous settings (mentally ill patients - in a dungeon?) wins the Oscar for Best Picture".