Sentences with phrase «smashing old records»

Scientists say sea ice in the Arctic shrank to an all - time low of 1.32 million square miles on Sept. 16, smashing old records for the critical climate indicator.

«2015 is shaping up to smash the old record,» says Trenberth.

Philadelphia reached 71 °F on Sunday, smashing the old record for the date by 6 °F.

His latest efforts on the track came earlier this week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as he drove the semi-autonomous Corvette to 152 mph, smashing his old record of 107 mph set in 2014 in a Stingray at the same track.

This represents a 15.7 per cent increase in sales compared to April of last year, and smashes the old record of 1,660 all property sales set in May of 2014.

Not exact matches

In a race that jolted his sport, 21 - year - old Usain Bolt of Jamaica smashed the world record for 100 meters and established himself as a threat to win multiple gold medals at the Beijing Olympics

Detroit's Al Kaline, 20 - year - old outfielder, smashed three home runs, two in one inning to tie major league record, led Tigers to 16 - 0 win over hapless Kansas City at week's end.

The Old Trafford side have been linked with a move for the 25 year old for some weeks and though this offer would clearly smash the world transfer record it still seems highly unlikely that the Bernabeu outfit would be open to offers for the Welsh internationOld Trafford side have been linked with a move for the 25 year old for some weeks and though this offer would clearly smash the world transfer record it still seems highly unlikely that the Bernabeu outfit would be open to offers for the Welsh internationold for some weeks and though this offer would clearly smash the world transfer record it still seems highly unlikely that the Bernabeu outfit would be open to offers for the Welsh international.

Tim Lollar, the San Diego Padres» 26 - year - old smash hit of a lefthander, muddled through last season with a 2 - 8 record and an ERA that looked like a Richter scale reading on a bad day along the San Andreas Fault.

The 16 - year old picked up the award for the tournament's top scorer after he smashed a record 10 goals in his seven games and they were important goals too, including one in the final against Mali that set Nigeria on course to lift the trophy.

Aged 17 years and 45 days, Woodburn smashed the previous record set by Michael Owen, who was 98 days older when he opened his account for the Reds in May 1997.

At week's end, heading into a three - game series against the Astros that began Tuesday night at Houston's Enron Field, the 37 - year - old Bonds had smashed or was threatening a slew of records (chart, page 41), including Aaron's mark of 47 home runs at age 37 or older (a record Bonds broke in early August).

The Old Trafford side may only have this one opportunity to conclude such a ground - breaking deal and if that means smashing both their own and the Spanish transfer record then it must be done.

The 27 - year - old has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester United and speculation has been growing over the past few days that the Premier League club are ready to smash their transfer record.

After years of disappointments, near - misses and fears her dream may not come to fruition, the long - distance runner pulled out all the stops to break her duck in the 1500m, also smashing a 32 - year - old Championship record in the process.

Whilst # 15million has scared off some teams — Boro are very much still keen and are ready to smash their transfer record by paying that for the 24 - year - old.

A daredevil who parachutes from skyscrapers will try to smash the nearly 50 - year - old record for the highest ever jump, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall

A clam has smashed the record for the oldest living animal.

A Greenland shark has lived at least 272 years, making the species the longest - lived vertebrate in the world — smashing the previous record held by a 211 - year - old bowhead whale.

«This burst smashes the old distance record by 500 million light - years.

On this day Will Goodman started his record dive on Gili Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia, Will smashed his old dive record with the unofficial new time of 33 hours and 30 minutes.

Like an old 45 record with the hit single on the «A» side and the weird throwaway track on the «B» side, Super Mario Bros was the blockbuster smash that everyone wanted to play, while Duck Hunt was the Zapper game where you shot scores of ducks while a dog laughed at your misfortune.

After all, if NOAA didn't have a pretty high level of confidence that their records were accurate to at least 10 millidegree precision, would they be reporting that a four year old record was «smashed» by 20 millidegrees?

After breaking Sven Kramer's 10 - year - old 5,000 m world record by 1.5 seconds, Bloemen notoriously smashed the arena's label displaying his former teammate's name and time.