Sentence examples for sets a new record from inspiring English sources

It sets a new record for the amount of hard luck to befall a character in a country song.

This week's biggest bid, Blackstone's offer of $36 billion including debt for Equity Office Properties, a real-estate trust, sets a new record in the field.

Still, the Border Patrol has more than doubled in size since 2004, and the Obama Administration, despite its deferments, sets a new record for deportations every year, including 2012.

Forty years after the passage of those post-Watergate reforms, the elections on November 4th are on pace to be the most expensive midterms in history (even adjusting for inflation), a distinction hardly worth mentioning in an era when each cycle sets a new record of one kind or another.

While the State Legislature sets a new record for failure — a $19 billion deficit and still no budget some 90 days after the legal deadline — the candidates for governor bicker over what Bill Clinton said about Jerry Brown 18 years ago and scream "liar" at each other as if they were in grade school.

This time around, Rieu has achieved his biggest UK box-office yet – £1.11m from 460 cinemas – a number that sets a new record for a music concert at UK cinemas, ahead of Take That Live and One Direction: Where We Are.

"I set a new record," Petersen said.

Are we setting a new record?

(Milosevic later set a new record in Kosovo).

This could set a new record for grumpy.

The price of oil set a new record.