Moreover, Greece improved its global ranking by a staggering 22 places in the 2013 Doing Business report, published by the World Bank.
If you chose Sussex purely for its position of 11th in the Guardian's 2012 table, you'd be disappointed when two years into your course it dropped a staggering 39 places.
Why do city buses squeak so horribly as they brake to a stop? A. James Anyansi, a spokesman for New York City Transit, said the usual causes of squeaky brakes -- dirty pads, excessive vibration, high temperatures -- are aggravated by the staggering demands placed on city buses, which, taken together, travel close to 102 million miles a year, stopping every two or three blocks.
Despite its staggering beauty, the place is so cut off, and so hard to get to, that few tourists go there.
There's also a staggering specificity of place — "The Ballad of the Salt Sea" is filled with annotated maps ("the natives of these islands are cannibals") and arcane references to Papuan tribes, Maori villages or the rivers of German New Guinea.
The most chilling example of this during the crisis was American International Group, which placed staggering wagers on mortgages that it ultimately could not honor without taxpayer help.
Fletcher's staggering all over the place, he can't see straight.
The waste of energy and the needless emissions of CO2 are staggering, and they take place simply because government-controlled electricity and fossil fuel prices are too cheap.There are very easy gains to be made here.
Instead, she trails the fugitives relentlessly, including the unlucky few who, convicted of petty crimes in London, were shipped thirteen thousand miles away, to Botany Bay, a place whose staggering deprivations made it worse than London, worse than Birchtown, worse than Granville Town, worse than the Province of Freedom.
Though the commission asserted that its recommendations would eventually strengthen health care employment, some estimated the immediate loss at about 500 — a staggering number in a place where the average person on the street not only recites the legacy of G.E. job losses, but can tell you pretty much what employment prospects are left.
