This is a staggering sum for a city that now has only 152, 000 people in it.
Soon afterwards Mr Putin was booed at a martial-arts contest a staggering idea only a few months ago.
In Louisville, Kentucky, salaried lawyers in the public defender's office handle a staggering 750 cases a year.
Some reports show that 65 percent of users confess to sleeping with their mobile phone and on average we check them a staggering 150 times a day.
That's a pretty staggering admission from a company that put the term "3D" in the name of its handheld.
India's share of the world's wealth has taken a staggering jump, with a combination of the roaring stock market and the appreciating rupee the springboard.
Last year there were just 205 cases of naturally occurring poliovirus compared with 650 cases in 2011 and a staggering 350, 000 a quarter of a century ago.
The Harvard Business School graduate has kept New York City (population: 8.4 million) afloat amid a staggering financial crisis and a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 10.6%.
That's enough for 5 million calls and represents a staggering fivefold gain over just a year ago.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, we are throwing away 68 pounds of textiles per person per year and donating such a staggering volume of clothes that a majority of our donations to charity have to be sold to textile recyclers who then sell more than half of our used clothes overseas, largely to Africa.
The economics would be staggering for a bout between the two best pugilists of their generation.
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His last movements captured on CCTV showed him staggering down a dead end lane leading to wasteland and the river.
More than three years after the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia is staggering through a political crisis, in which two of the protagonists are parties headed, until recently, by men who are now war-crimes suspects.
Last year, China installed a staggering 18GW of wind power, with a goal of achieving 200GW installed by 2020.
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That's up 23 percent from the last quarter of 2007, and up a staggering 112 percent from the same period a year ago.
In the third quarter, for example, volumes grew by a staggering 15% in India led by a 34% rise in volume of the flagship drink Coke.
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An inflation rate of 20.4% in 1990 is down to 2.2%, and a budget deficit equal to a staggering 29% of GDP is now a manageable 1.5%.
In the five biggest EU countries large majorities, ranging from 77% in Britain to a staggering 92% in France, told a recent poll that he would have a positive impact on international events.
The well-known venture capitalist recalled the incident while sitting on a leather sofa in his staggering penthouse: a newly completed two-bedroom, three-bath 5, 500-square-foot apartment on the 60th floor of the Millennium Tower with views from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge and beyond.
From 1990 to date, the two decades of explosive growth since the effective launch of the Internet as we know it, Web traffic grew a staggering one-million-fold from a puny 48 terabytes a year (a few desktops now contain that much data) to an astronomical 60 exabytes.
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The culprit is a staggering flare-up of Markarian 421, a "blazar" that hosts a supermassive black hole.
The results were staggering: 35% of people shared the coupon and a staggering 56% of the recipients clicked through the coupon offer.
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The index fell a staggering 6.9 points to 53.5, a level narrowly above 50, the demarcation between a growing and contracting manufacturing sector.
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Nike controls a staggering 95% of the basketball shoe market already (a function of Michael Jordan much more than James or Kobe Bryant), but it has a new competitor in Under Armour which launched its first basketball shoe this month.
In July 1998, reports emerged that a staggering sum of money linked to Indonesia had been shifted from a bank in Switzerland to another in Austria, now considered a safer haven for hush-hush deposits.
The gory details: The average number of tax returns each telecommunication company has to file per year is a staggering 47, 921, compared to 7, 501 returns for a general business.
Davies took a staggering 11.84 seconds off his own Welsh record in March with a time of 15 minutes 6.03secs as he finished second in the 1500m freestyle at the British Championships.
Japan's Daiwa has slashed its recommended holding back from a staggering 70% in October, when it was worried about inflation, to a still-overweight 60%.
With a section of New York fans leading "M-V-P" chants with every bucket, Anthony scored 12 consecutive points in the third quarter as the Knicks kept a Cavs team staggering to the finish at a distance.
Japan has a staggering 97 airports, some planned on the basis of fanciful traffic assumptions made by bureaucrats who wanted a retirement sinecure.
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