Sentence examples for reported advance from inspiring English sources

Soon after graduating from Yale, Joshua Foer wrote an article for Slate about the USA Memory Championship, prompting a book proposal, a bidding war, a reported advance of $1.25 million, a movie deal and the raw resentment of Web sites like Gawker.

Joe Contreras, a spokesman for the UN Mission in South Sudan, told the BBC World Service Newshour programme that the reported advance of the armed youths was a dangerous development.

The ticket service Fandango reported advance tickets surpassed Tom Cruise's previous film Oblivion, but were being overcome by the competing film The Fault in Our Stars.

Disenchanted with their US record company, Capitol Records, Pink Floyd and O'Rourke negotiated a new contract with Columbia Records, who gave them a reported advance of $1,000,000, which is worth approximately $ today.

Menon's efforts to secure a contract renewal with Pink Floyd were in vain however; at the beginning of 1974, the band signed for Columbia with a reported advance fee of $1M (in Britain and Europe they continued to be represented by Harvest Records).

In Iran, state television reported advances in its nuclear program on Wednesday.

In recent months, however, it has bragged not only about an increased ability to produce enriched uranium, but it has publicly reported advances in its missile technology.

They also reported advances in the development of graphene applications, including electrically conductive coatings and polymer composites, ultracapacitors, nanoscale field-effect transistors, and ultrafast photodetectors.