美國《財富》雜志2004年一期公布了美國最大的500家公司最新排名，沃爾瑪公司連續第三年名列榜首。
外電中有如此的報道：
Retailing1 giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., with net sales last year of $256.33 billion, was named No. 1 on the Fortune 500 list of America's largest companies for the third year in a row.
外電中有如此的報道：
Retailing1 giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., with net sales last year of $256.33 billion, was named No. 1 on the Fortune 500 list of America's largest companies for the third year in a row.
in a row是一個固定短語，意思是one after the other without a break（一個接一個地，沒間斷）。比如：She won the competition three times in a row.（她接連三次取得了比賽冠軍。）