1. Foreign investment in Taiwan rose by 79% last year.

2. She lived to the age of 79.

3. There were 79 killed and 230 wounded.

4. In AD 79 the city of Pompei was buried under a layer of ash seven metres deep.

4. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

5. The bill comes to £79, so that's about £10 each.

6. He ran the 100 metres in 9.79 seconds and broke/smashed the world record.

7. This year's maturity value would be ￡79,893.

8. In Virginia 89 delegates voted yes and 79 no.

9. The leading 32 players scored 79 or better yesterday.

10. Matthau, who has died aged 79, was quite something.

11. Clause 79 provides for discount where there is only one or no resident in the property.

12. In 79% of the biopsy specimens there was concurrence over the grading of the extent of gastric metaplasia.

13. In 1789-90 the conviction rate in London was 79 percent and in the provinces 85 percent.

14. The Topix index lost 1. 79, or 0. 11 percent, to 1, 585. 52.

15. February crude dropped 88 cents to $ 18. 79 a barrel, the largest decline since March 28, 1994.

16. For this man, the expected duration at the 1978/79 benefit levels is 74 weeks.

17. Winter collection reductions include half-price wool sweaters, suits down from ￡79.99 to Pounds 40.

18. Women's camelhair coats down from ￡749 to ￡395, botany knitwear down from ￡79 to ￡49.

19. Overall these students rank in the 21st percentile on the tests-that is, they did worse than 79 per cent of all children taking the test.

20. Among blue chips, J. P. Morgan surrendered 2 5 / 8 to 79.

21. The average body surface area is accepted as being I. 79 square meters.

22. The area covered is 270,000 square feet of which the immense central hall occupied 79 feet by 183 feet.

23. Joey Benjamin was the pick of the Surrey bowlers with four for 79 off 29 overs.

24. The ground-effects revolution, pioneered by Chapman with the Lotus 78 and 79 designs, produced its own family of flops.

25. The actor Walter Matthau, best known for playing crumpled, curmudgeonly characters on screen, has died aged 79.

26. Hilton Hotels posted net income of $ 38. 1 million, or 79 cents, in the year-ago quarter.

27. The upper limit of the floating exchange rate trading band for today was 1, 024. 79.

28. A diagnostic colon test, which costs the average beneficiary $ 164, would carry a price tag of $ 79.

29. When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79, our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced.

30. Blueberries can be had, however, at the local supermarket, for $ 2. 79 per quart.