| To say that such a fate would be unpleasant would be an astronomically gross understatement. |
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| He returned with astronomically determined latitudes and longitudes for many of the places he had visited, essential data for accurate mapping. |
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| Although planets, moons and planetesimals may seem to be very different astronomically, their common origin shows that this is not so. |
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| Not only are the odds of getting caught up in something like this astronomically large but I refuse to be terrorised by religious nutters. |
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| The chances of a watch being constructed by blind chance are astronomically small. |
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| These astronomically high figures let appear the frequently advanced costs for the protection of our climate in another light. |
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| It is not clear under which regime this falls and the use, or misuse, of this category is set to rise astronomically. |
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| If you had such an astronomically disastrous evening, the restaurant may want to make good, so give them the chance. |
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| So the cost to run a car and the energy efficiency and the need for the use of carbon fuels is astronomically different. |
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| The machines are of a simple construction, fulfill their purpose, and they are not astronomically expensive. |
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| I know the research and development investment went up astronomically in Ireland. |
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| In light of this, the fate awaiting those astronomically paid bankers could be a particularly nasty one. |
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| Gazprom could become the world's biggest emerging-market stock. The second is astronomically high energy prices. |
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| However, this calculation is not astronomically accurate either, so it, too, leads to the dates shifting out of place. |
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| Perhaps most important, the public's view of what constitutes a crime has widened astronomically. |
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| A sewage disposal plant to handle that volume of water and waste would be astronomically expensive. |
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| The bullish speculative fervour that drove wheat and other commodity markets to astronomically high levels earlier this year is gone and not likely to return anytime soon. |
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| But I was so astronomically well-paid I didn't much mind. |
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| The effect, quite the contrary, was astronomically expensive. |
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| There are, however, many elderly people who are not receiving the guaranteed income supplement, who do not have astronomically high incomes, and who would like to receive this additional payment. |
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| I myself have on more than one occasion here in Parliament talked, for example, about the way in which consumers are forced to pay astronomically high prices for a limited producer interest. |
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| A number of the major insurers, including Lloyd's, refused to cover terrorism, and in the end, primary insurers either excluded it totally or charged rates that were astronomically high and beyond the rates of museums. |
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| Conventional chronology is based on two astronomically confident dates that are associated with rise of Sothis, the event noted down by ancient Egyptian documents dated to times of XII and XVIII dynasties. |
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| As regards debt collection, delays in payment on hire purchase agreements and unclear, sometimes astronomically high, interest rates appear to be the main problems. |
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| Moreover, there are signs that rampant globalisation driven by low energy and fuel costs in an era of fervent market liberalisation and astronomically speculative capital returns is about to hit the buffers. |
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| In addition, those astronomically interesting X-rays and ultraviolet radiation reaching the lunar surface are health hazards and are occasionally strong enough to kill us. |
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| Mostly because of the rising price of oil, the price of grains such as rice and corn is rising astronomically, which is causing violent protests in some areas. |
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| As the Iran-Iraq war continued inconclusively, and Iraq's indebtedness to its wealthy Arab neighbours grew astronomically, progressive disenchantment with Iraq as guarantor of regional security requirements set in. |
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| Should it even try, it would likely provoke an instant scarcity and quickly drive up the prices of spices astronomically. |
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| Your chances of dying in this way are not astronomically high. |
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| So, it took only 30 schoolchildren from North London to show that the celeb-toted, astronomically expensive manuka honey isn't all it's cracked up to be. |
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