Sentence examples for substantial run from inspiring English sources

The reviews were ecstatic, the audience in love, and "On the Town" was a big hit, playing for more than year (a substantial run in those days).

"I love getting laughs," he said in an interview in 1982, in the midst of a substantial run as a replacement Sidney Bruhl in "Deathtrap" on Broadway.

Four of this year's nominees, the four most substantial, run twenty to twenty-two minutes (films of this length used to be called "two-reelers"); one, a comedy of thirteen minutes, is like a "one-reeler".

The play had a substantial run in London and at one point was supposed to come to Broadway, but was unable to gather the necessary backing to make the trip.

With three wins in their final six regular season games and a third-place finish in the Pacific League, Burroughs High's boys' basketball team didn't look like a team poised to make a substantial run in the CIF Southern Section Division I-AA playoffs.

In experiments using virus host DNA mixtures we observed substantial run to run variation in PCR data and identified potential sources of error in copy number determination.

For instance, gold and basic materials stocks already enjoyed substantial run-ups in 2003 as the economy began to rebound.

He tracked a hypothetical instance in which a misguided lawsuit against an approved project can trigger a substantial run-up in price for the builder and the eventual home buyer.

They pointed out that yesterday's rise in commodity prices was building on a gradual but substantial run-up in oil prices that started at the beginning of the year, mainly because of reductions in output that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries began in 2001.

The days when acclaimed plays could settle in for substantial runs of several months if not years now seem so, well, 20th century.

Clarke noted Johnson was outstanding but that it could have been a very different Test had Marsh, Smith, Warner and Doolan not made substantial runs.