Sentences with phrase «record setter»

The phrase "record setter" means someone or something that has achieved or broken a previous record, or set a new benchmark or accomplishment that is the highest or best of its kind. Full definition
Emaar said the new building would be a «notch higher» than the previous record setter, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Latvia has been burdened with the world's most regressive tax system, while Iceland and Ireland have become record setters in tapping taxpayers to bail out financial...
A BMW Factory Instructor at the BMW Performance Center in Greer, S.C. and World Record setter in a BMW M5 for the longest drift, Schwartz also raced a BMW 2002Tii in this year's Royal Pro-Am Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix.
This is literally true for El Guerrouj, in whose dorm room hangs a framed piece of parchment signed by all 16 living mile record setters, from Sydney Wooderson to Morceli, each of whom appended his record time.
But according to website Record Setter a man named Michael Thomas from Florida has managed to keep his eyes open one hour, 5.61 seconds.
Good luck that looks like a 100 - year or longer record setter in 1998.
Let's take expensive players like Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff — price record setters themselves in the 2009 IPL edition or Yuvraj Singh — who holds the all - time record for any IPL player.
The previous record setters are 71 x 133 inches and 56 x 76 inches respectively.
Even if that El Niño is nothing spectacular, it might become a record setter simply because it is getting a warmer start, Christy said.
In 2010, another record setter, Ricardo da Gama Bahia of Brazil, flooded his body with oxygen for more than 20 minutes and then held his breath underwater for 20 minutes and 21 seconds.
The National Interagency Fire Center's numbers vividly illustrate how 2015 was a record setter.
Early signs already indicate that 2016 could again be a record setter due to the residual effects of El Niño and, of course, the influence of human greenhouse gas emissions.
Guinness World Records says the really sweet house is a record setter.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS Featuring an epic roster of female athletes, Molly Schiot's Game Changers is a stirring tribute to the record setters, barrier breakers and milestone makers who opened the way for the women competitors of today.
But not every month is going to be a record setter, so $ 689.38 is certainly nothing to feel bad about at all.
This year's show is shaping up to be a record setter.
We know from earlier last month that it is a record setter as far as Guinness is concerned.
According to the New York Times the buyer of Gerhard Richter's «Domplatz, Mailand [Cathedral Square, Milan]», 1968, another record setter of the evening, Donald L. Bryant, a New York businessman, plans to hang it in his yet to be completed house in Napa Valley.
The price was nearly double the previous record setter, $ 26.4 million (including fees) reached for an untitled 1981 painting on Nov. 14, 2012, at Christie's New York.
This is not a record setter, as we've seen drives eek read speeds above two gigabytes per second.
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