Sentence examples for whopping advances from inspiring English sources

Publishers pay whopping advances – like the £5milllion doled out to Tony Blair – in the hope that they'll be able to recoup at least half of that instantly with Sunday 'paper serialisation.

Penguin is the publisher who's stumped up that whopping advance.

Bought for a whopping advance of $650,000, this is one of the most anticipated US debuts of the year.

From a show that once had a whopping $37.8 million advance?

He will likely concentrate his efforts on writing a book about business management, for which he has received a whopping $7.1 million advance to write.

By December 2000, Hillary had agreed to a deal with publisher Simon and Schuster for her memoir and got a whopping $8 million advance.

Whats bad news for traditional retailers, however, seems to be good news for their online competitors, as Internet computer retailer egghead.com eggs advances a whopping 3 1/4 to 14 11/16.

The number-crunchers over at fivethirtyeight gave them a whopping 6% chance at advancing to the Western Conference Finals, and that was before they dropped Game 1.

And because of strict registration requirements requiring a voter to change party preferences or select a preference six months in advance, a whopping 37% of New York City voters under the age of 30 were unable to vote in the Democratic Primary.

This argument would however not hold when applied to the more technologically advanced South Africa where a whopping 50% of rural households still suffer a similar fate.

A vast majority of 1 percenters graduated from college, and in a whopping 27 percent of couples, both partners have advanced degrees.