Sentence examples for sterling year from inspiring English sources

Most distinguished among the old money names, the Queen had a sterling year as she added £10m to her personal fortune and is now ranked 285 with £330m.

FremantleMedia is a hugely important business for RTL Group, it accounts for 25% of total revenues and 13% of profits, although the business had a less than sterling year in the UK in 2011.

The selloff in shares of Ruger and Smith & Wesson come at the end of what has been an otherwise sterling year for the gun makers.

Muir comments that the feel of The Day After Tomorrow is "a little more colourful (less minimalist) in colour and costume than Space: 1999's sterling Year One", with such elements as Wadsworth's "hard-hitting, hard-driving musical score" livening up the proceedings.

But, for all that, McGovern lifts this to an altogether higher quality of drama, with credible rather than cartoon villainy, and Julian Rhind-Tutt, after such sterling years of radio service, proves again what a thoroughly class package he really is.

Under Charles I Scotland had paid about £17,000 sterling a year in taxes.

Insect damage costs the world loses approximately 6 billion pounds sterling every year.

For instance, treatment of consequences of tobacco accounts costs the British National Health Service several billion pound sterling each year [ 37].

Their supporters say Mr. Sterling spent years trying to get access to the evidence that cleared him.

So it's very nice to see them coming through and doing so well, like Sterling two years on, stepping up from being a talented potential first-team player to being a very obvious first-team player".

U.S. Real Estate Investment trusts, commonly known as REITs, have delivered sterling five-year returns, averaging 19% a year.