Chicago saw homicides jump to 513 in 2012, a 15% hike in a single year.
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He took eight AP exams in a single year, teaching himself much of the material.
But the single factor that can show dramatic shifts in ranking in a single year is selectivity.
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Already, Android smartphone market share in China has exploded from 3% to 35% in a single year.
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It was the first time that BMW sold more than 300, 000 vehicles in China in a single year.
That is more in a single year than the whole estimated cost of staging the London 2012 Olympics.
Last year Nissan achieved an historic milestone of selling more than one million LCV's worldwide in a single year.
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Can Castile La Mancha really cut its deficit from 7.3% to 1.5% of regional GDP in a single year?
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Pinatubo, however, reduced global temperatures by nearly that much in a single year.
In 2003 its new Mississippi factory ran into trouble trying to launch an unprecedented five models in a single year.
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If the population of America's jails was cut in half in a single year, you'd probably have heard about it.
At its height, says Andrew Heaney of Spectrum, a consultancy, telecoms operators built seven years'-worth of capacity in a single year.
The number of journeys made on the line was more than 500, 000 in a single year for the first time in 2011.
In a single year under Rasputin's influence Russia had five interior ministers, three war ministers, four agriculture ministers and three justice ministers.
This more than doubles the number of regions where HP and its employees are able to make an impact in a single year.
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But then we saw the resilience of industrial demand the following year, when we had the largest annual rise in a single year.
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The company added Samsung's 2012 shipment volume was the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single year.
Our progressive tax code punishes income received in a single year.
In that state, AFSCME lost more than half of its membership in a single year, a strong rebuke from the workers they claimed to be protecting.
TripAdvisor offers its content in 21 different languages with more than 60 contributions per minute, which equates to over 30 million contributions in a single year.
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Worldwide Mini sales broke the 300, 000 threshold for the first time in a single year, with the number of cars sold up by 5.8% to 301, 526 units.
It is thought the record Tommy Godwin set in 1939 for the longest distance cycled in a single year - 75, 065 miles - has never been broken.
This represents asset growth of 85% in a single year.
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He raced in 12 Ironman events in a single year.
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That leaves Nicole Kidman, whose professionalism in putting a bruising divorce behind her and delivering three top-notch performances in a single year is likely to win her a big sympathy vote.
But he built his fan base the old-fashioned way: In 2009 he played over 300 gigs because, he says, he read that James Morrison had played 200 in a single year.
In a single year, the British-born actress impressively--and successfully-- vacillated between a splashy franchise flick ( Disney 's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) and a dramatic literary romance (Focus Features' Atonement).
Student loan interest rates have historically risen and fallen, but moving from 3.4 to 6.8 percent in a single year would be a dramatic jump, said Terry Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education.
My Tax Policy Center colleague Bob Williams reminds me that only twice in modern history has the U.S. reduced spending by more than 10 percent in a single year at the end of World Wars I and II.
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