Sentence examples for string of industries from inspiring English sources

This year the 20 richest women on the planet have a combined net worth of $160 billion derived from a diverse string of industries including manufacturing, finance, real estate and commodities.

It has also won a string of industry prizes, including four top Golden Globe awards.

Success brought Frith a string of industry awards but the kind of momentum that he built up couldn't last forever, and Heat began haemorrhaging readers last year.

Several experts said the ruling, the latest in a string of industry victories in cases involving light cigarettes, relieved the tobacco industry of potentially billions in damages and could also deter other similar class-action lawsuits around the country.

The CD, which recently sold more than a million copies in its first week in stores, helped extend a nearly consistent five-month string of industry growth, as measured by weekly sales compared with year-earlier periods.

A string of industry big-hitters fancied for the job have ruled themselves out of the process, including Dame Marjorie Scardino, the former chief executive of the Financial Times owner Pearson; former Sony chief and BBC non-executive director Sir Howard Stringer and Sarah Hoggg, a crossbencher in the Lords who was once John Major's Downing Street policy chief.

A long string of industry bankruptcies continued last month with Armstrong Coal.

"Over the past 30 years there has been a long string of industry experts who have predicted the end of Moore's Law within five to 10 years," he says.

Oil industry titan ExxonMobil has had a gold star from Wall Street bankers for decades, through the Great Depression, a world war, and a string of industry booms and busts.

The pessimists fear that a string of other industries will follow.

He has already expanded the "easy" brand into a string of other industries, creating easyCar, easyHotel, easyGym and easyProperty.