Sentence examples for the longstanding record from inspiring English sources

Burk's time of 8 minutes 2 seconds at Henley in 1938 eclipsed the longstanding record time there by eight seconds.

The city's lawyers, Heidi Grossman and Linda Donahue, urged Judge Scheindlin to delay putting her ruling in place because the changes she ordered could create "an environment that may stem and reverse the longstanding record of crime reduction in this city".

Two of the longstanding records were shattered by swimmers who ranked outside the world's top 20 last year: Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden in the women's 100 butterfly and Paul Biedermann of Germany in the men's 400 freestyle.

"Should Rudolph Giuliani attain the presidency in 2008 he will have faced down this longstanding record," Michael H. Ebner, a history professor at Lake Forest College, said in a telephone interview.

But that longstanding record has finally been overturned, according to newly-published research which shows that workers north of the border are now being paid more than their English counterparts.

After his fifth day in the yellow jersey in the race, Cancellara broke René Vietto's longstanding record as the rider with the most career yellow jerseys who has not won the Tour overall.

In a statement, Barry Sullivan, general superintendent of the Gateway National Recreation Area, which includes Jacob Riis Park, said the Gateway parks prided themselves "on our longstanding record of serving the diverse population of New York's five boroughs".

Many of them also have a longstanding record of being in the pocket of the intelligence community.

Selinger's best time is only four seconds off the longstanding world record for "normal" racers (Squatrighlia 2001).

Apparently the news leaked that I was carrying "the bat" that McGwire used to break Maris's longstanding record.

One of the students attends the Collegiate School, an expensive private school in Manhattan whose legendary counselor Bruce Breimer has a caseload of 46 students and a longstanding record of success in getting them placed in the most prestigious colleges in the nation.