Sentence examples for years of junk from inspiring English sources

The debt rating of Corning was raised yesterday by Standard & Poor's to investment grade, ending three years of junk status, after the company improved its profit and cash levels.

What you don't see in the romantically photographed calendars of old farms is the years of junk lurking behind the barn door -- bolts, screws, hay twine, wood, metal posts, bent fencing, rope, irrigation pipe and seed bags.

This way you are able to gradually sort through years of junk.

In fact, the whole room is quite unnaturally tidy, thanks to my daughter, Alice, who kindly devoted a good stretch of her summer to clearing away 20 years' worth of junk, papers and books all over the floor, and rationalising the bookshelves.

After years of eating junk food and caring little about his health, he started paying close attention to his diet, drinking protein shakes and eating more fruit and meat.

SO you're thinking of buying or leasing an electric car, and you're taking a hard look at the garage, filled with many years of accumulated junk and sporting a single 110-volt socket on the wall.

Many people, conditioned by college movies like "National Lampoon's Animal House" or "Revenge of the Nerds," are inclined to think of college as some kind of wild four-year orgy of junk food, all-nighters, alcohol, pranks, video games and late-night runs to the diner for coffee and tuna melts.

Default rates will rise, of course, especially as a towering wall of debt maturities comes due in two years; some $657 billion of junk bonds, leveraged loans and commercial mortgages are scheduled to come due in 2014, by his reckoning.

It took 16 years to junk the junky BCS.

Those jumps led to the best-ever year for junk bonds -- a return of 39.2percentt.

THE bankruptcies of companies like Global Crossing and Adelphia Communications helped make 2002 a tough year for junk bond investors.