Sentence examples for raising the record from inspiring English sources

O'Brien was the best exponent of the style, winning three Olympic medals (two gold) and raising the record from 17.95 metres (58 feet 10.75 inches) to 19.30 metres (63 feet 4 inches).

Eight years ago the results were just four metres.' Isinbayeva has earned about $500,000 in prize money by raising the record just a centimetre each time - with $170,000 coming in just five meetings in the UK.

After winning her first outdoor world championship title and raising the record yet again, to 5.01 metres (16 feet 5.25 inches) in August 2005 she avoided serious talk about ultimate height goals but said that she hoped to claim 36 world records in her career one more than Bubka's total.

In 1995, they raised the record to 920 million degrees.

In 1964, Mrs. Odlum, flying an F-104G Starfighter, raised the record to 1,429 miles an hour.

In 1977, he raised the record for American furniture to $135,000, buying a Boston bombe chest.

She raised the record first to 4.96 metres (16 feet 3.25 inches) and then to 5 metres.

Among them was Yury Sedykh (U.S.S.R ., who won at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and raised the record from 80.32 metres (24.5 feet) to 86.74 metres (26.4 feet).

Hasek's latest shutout, a 1-0 victoveroVityaztyaz Chekhov on Jan . 8 raised the record age to 45 years 344 days.

Botticelli's "Virgin and Child With Saint John the Baptist," a rare devotional picture, famous in art history as "The Rockefeller Madonna," raised the record for the Florentine artist to $10.44 million.

In 1938 on Lake Hallwil in Switzerland, he raised the record to 130.93 miles per hour, and finally, on August 19, 1939, on Coniston Water in Lancashire, he set the record of 141.74 miles per hour that he held when he died.