Sentence examples for spectacular number of from inspiring English sources

It led to a pretty spectacular number of censure motions in the house today.

A meddling friend had taken her to lunch and announced that Ms. Donelson's boyfriend was cheating on her with a spectacular number of women.

"A spectacular number of people were first-time donors, and when we saw these people coming through, we knew we were going to have a lot of positives," said Dr. Jerry Squires, vice president and chief scientific officer of the American Red Cross.

Yuto Nagatomo dealt remarkably well with the spectacular number of silly and patronising questions thrown his way after he joined Cesena from Tokyo in the summer, but even he was a little taken aback when one hack opened an interview by asking: "Do you like football?" "If we qualify for the Champions League I'll put on a miniskirt and dye my hair blonde," announced Lavezzi this month.

It was a cast of seven that wove personal, emotional stories along with the raw, spectacular numbers of their careers.

Generally speaking, though, the real delight here is the open country, which reveals spectacular numbers of waterbirds – crowned cranes, slaty egrets, whiskered terns and many more – foraging in the receding pools as the flood waters recede into the dry season.

As there is generally a single source of contamination, generally from water, epidemics of hepatitis E are characterized by spectacular numbers of infected people [ 37, 39, 40].

Radio 3's decline in London was particularly spectacular – its number of listeners in the capital was down 27.4% on the quarter and 26.7% year on year.

At least one of these spectacular numbers, filmed to the music of Irving Berlin's "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," with overtones of "Rhapsody in Blue," never has been equaled on the musical comedy stage or screen".

That summer, at Saratoga, she sustained the most horrendous and spectacular of a number of spills.

Only a few months had passed since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- at that time the most recent and spectacular of a number of terrorist attacks and hijackings that, during the previous years, had been directed against United States airlines and American passengers.