Sentences with phrase «astonishing number of things»

Today, the hall closets in many homes and apartments are filled with an astonishing number of things not remotely related to coats, hats or umbrellas.

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21.

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In an era when such messages were being sent out from Rome itself the astonishing thing is not the number of Catholic clergyin communist countries who collaborated (often in minor ways) but the continuing and overwhelming majority who did not.

He made three more goal assists than his rivals, created more than twice the number if goal chances of Messi, made a thousand more passes than Ronaldo and here's the astonishing thing — Ribery made over 500 more dribbles and runs in 2013 than Ronaldo and Messi combined.

You can love Apple or hate Apple — plenty of people do — but one thing is unassailable: the company has led or reinvented an astonishing number of industries.

That a Jew is «number one» to one of the most pervasive symbols of the most pernicious Christian holiday is one of those things that would be astonishing if it weren't so very sad.

Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the glory days of Al Capone — Scarface, Big Al, Public Enemy Number One — is how short they were: six years, from mid-level thug to big boss to jail.