Sentence examples for whopping good from inspiring English sources

"Triumph and happiness are not givens," he said, "so the story, which is a whopping good one, is believable.

Yet as staged by Ms. Boyd (who did an engagingly simplified production of Mr. Sondheim's "Follies" in 2005), "Sweeney" still comes across as a whopping good, grisly yarn of obsession and destruction.

I feel safer guaranteeing you a whopping good time if you invest a few hours in James Fallows' new book, Free Flight (PublicAffairs, $25).

Le Le, on Vesterbrogade, has good whopping bowls of Vietnamese pho, containing rice-noodles, coriander, lemongrass; Thai Esan 1, on Lille Istedgade, does great classic Thai; and O Mo Nim, on Gasvaerksvej, serves Korean barbecue.

The reason the economy is seriously unbalanced is that Britain has the wrong sort of growth – too dependent on consumer spending (hence the whopping deficit in goods) and on the services sector (hence the healthy surplus in services).

Britain still ran a whopping trade deficit in goods in February, with exports almost £6.8bn lower than imports.

But contemporary economics also plays a role: books are exempt from Argentina's standard sales tax – a whopping 21% on most goods – and internet sales and electronic book readers have yet to make inroads on the local publishing market.

"AstraZeneca's £7bn of drugs sold every year accounts for a whopping 2.3% of British goods exports," she added.

AstraZeneca's £7bn of drugs sold every year accounts for a whopping 2.3% of British goods exports.

eBay is on pace to reach a whopping $1.5 billion worth of goods sold via mobile phones in 2010.

eBay is on pace to reach a whopping $1.5 billion worth of goods sold via its mobile apps in 2010 if all goes well this holiday season.