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How to use the word whilst in a Sentence? Page #4

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Whilst we agree Ferrari has the potential to grow sales from about 7,000 units to about 10,000 relatively easily in the next few years, longer-term we question whether it really has better unit growth potential than a company like BMW, investors should seriously question whether (Ferrari) should trade on 4 times the multiple of BMW.

Arndt Ellinghorst

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Tourists to Svalbard Airport are well-informed, so the course taught me the' hard skills' of multi-day excursions on glaciers and hiking, whilst educating guests on issues affecting the region, svalbard Airport highlights the plight of the Arctic.

Mario Placidi Spring

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Commodity sector borrowings are still in demand. Whilst we have seen some headwinds recently, we are still closing out between 10-12 deals this year from the commodities sector excluding M&A related deals. Volumes raised yearly on the average have been circa $ 12 - $ 14 billion for past few years( if M&A financings are excluded) and we expect the same for 2015.

Boey Yin Chong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The primary reason for this is likely to have been their proximity to danger, the Westgate attack, whilst highly lethal, given the 67 fatalities, largely unfolded behind barriers erected by the police and army.

The Royal Society of Medicine

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ayoub el Khazzani had watched whilst already on the Thalys train YouTube files in which an individual called on the faithful to fight and take up arms in the name of the Prophet.

Francois Molins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ayoub el Khazzani had watched YouTube audio files whilst already on the Thalys train in which an individual called on the faithful to fight and take up arms in the name of the Prophet.

Francois Molins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This supports our combination-focused strategy in oncology to help explore potential new treatment options, whilst keeping the cost of new therapies low enough to enable access for patients and payers.

An AstraZeneca spokeswoman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Whilst there is no defined timetable for a final settlement, Julius Baer continues to work towards closing this regrettable legacy issue as soon as possible.

The Zurich-based private bank

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The airline needs to simplify its fleet and network whilst facing many competitive and reputational challenges. But given the growth dynamics of the region and the geography of its KL hub, I believe that success can be achieved over the medium term.

John Strickland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

U.S. data has remained on the weak side, despite tightness in the labour market. This allows the FOMC (Fed) to remove the patience language and remain dovish in the statement tomorrow, that so much discussion around the economy is still warranted whilst equity price performance marches on toward imperious new highs is clear evidence that assets are out- performing underlying economics.

Nick Lawson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Whilst there is a possibility that this threat is a hoax, we must treat the threat seriously and a priority investigation is underway, you might be aware of someone who has strong views on the 1080 issue and made threats, or has discussed how to access supplies of 1080.

Deputy Commissioner Mike Clement

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Whilst U.S. earnings are at a record high, European earnings are depressed and at a cyclical low. It is normally at this point in the cycle that European earnings surprise on the upside.

Robert Parkes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

On repeated viewing of that very grainy video, we now suspect that there( were) far more originals in Mosul Museum than I first thought, whilst there was indeed a program to relocate antiquities to safekeeping in Baghdad, it looks now as though it didn't reach that particular museum.

Eleanor Robson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Because of the crisis in Ukraine the system is breaking down and there is a shortage of antiretroviral drugs. They cost money, they are expensive and whilst the international community is there to support, it is probably not enough.

Giovanna Barberis

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Rail passengers are advised to expect significant delays whilst the vehicle is being recovered and fumes are cleared from the tunnels.

Kent Police

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Whilst anti-Semitism in Britain is not yet at the levels seen in most of Europe, the results of our survey should be a wakeup call, britain is at a tipping point: unless anti-Semitism is met with zero tolerance, it will continue to grow and British Jews may increasingly question their place in their own country.

Gideon Falter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Whilst you may reinforce and excite those who are already radicalized ... there's also the risk that you turn away many people who would sympathize with you if you opted for more legitimate targets.

Shashank Joshi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologize for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.

Ched Evans

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Whilst progress has been made, it is of great concern to everyone at MSF that the population is now much less vigilant about Ebola and health promotion messages are being pushed aside.

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Christina Rossetti

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9 years ago

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Plutarch

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

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10 years ago

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