1.   Balanchine was one of the greatest choreographers of all time, and the New York City Ballet, which he founded with Lincoln Kirstein, was his monumental achievement.

2.   Becoming captain was a monumental achievement for someone who almost did not make the team.

3.   A bill that good would surely have been declared a monumental legislative achievement.

4.   But in another he said that a victory against Trinidad would be a monumental achievement.

5.   I failed to grasp with sufficient awe the monumental achievement of Neil Armstrong when he set the first human foot on the surface of the moon.

6.   It was a shabby way to treat a monumental human achievement created at the dawn of this century.

7.   It was a monumental achievement, one well worth toasting into the New Year.

8.   Only an understandable lack of funds, or a bewildering lack of interest, should be acceptable reasons for passing up this monumental achievement.

9.   Still, the work is a monumental achievement.

10.   The film was a monumental achievement, and there is much to be admired about it -- a must-see from any true fan of the cinema.