Sentence examples for spec from inspiring English sources

The third was, if it's possible, even more personal; it was the rejection of a book spec I'd been working on for ten months.

It is a tough job spec to meet from a shallow pool of potential British applicants.

Boeing badmouthed its European rival, Airbus, for building aircraft on spec and flooding the market.

For the Tragars, that meant surfing one of the many car sites where consumers can "spec out" a vehicle equipped exactly the way they want, then find a dealer near their home.That was the easy part.

They calculate their own productivity and follow complicated spec sheets for a wide variety of designs.

Canary Wharf Plc, for example, will put up no more than one building on spec at a time.

They certainly didn't have anything to do with the high-spec, high-margin instrumentation that IT multinationals would have municipal governments invest in.

We can host courses at the Guardian's high-spec offices in central London, or bring them to you or your workplace.

Higher-spec devices such as smartphones and tablets can perform the same functions in more user-friendly ways, for instance through multimedia apps, and can also draw on a wider range of sensors and capacities – eg accelerometers, GPS and camera – to generate richer data and smarter interventions.

It matters, then, whether Helsinki – and the graduate engineering student the municipality has apparently commissioned to help it design its platform – is proposing a truly collective next-generation transit system for the entire public, or just a high-spec service for the highest-margin customers.

It wasn't just the high-spec design that drew attention, it was the bravura manner in which the Eye's prefabricated components were brought up the Thames on river barges to Jubilee Gardens, and the week-long drama during which, inch by inch, the giant wheel was raised from the river and up into place alongside County Hall.