Sentence examples for a close contender from inspiring English sources
In some towns her rival, who elsewhere was a close contender, secured precisely no votes.
He also recalled that Mr. Keller "was a close contender for this job last time around".
Gone Home, which has already won several awards, seems to have been a close contender for the prize.
But the intelligent kicking game of his half-back partner Paul Cooke, who created two tries and landed 11 goals, made him a close contender to Horne as man of the match along with the prop Paul King.
If there was a competition for one photo embodying the Conservatives' approach towards those wishing to settle in the UK, then David Cameron and Theresa May's 2015 PR stunt - raiding the homes of suspected illegal immigrants - is a close contender for first place.
The Third Man, deeply influenced by Italian neorealism, is arguably the most significant British example, though it has a close contender in Reed's Odd Man Out (1947), shot on blitzed sites in Belfast, and Charles Crichton's seminal Ealing comedy Hue and Cry (1947).
Their solution, called Parakeet, is a touch-screen-based interface for phones and other mobile devices, which not only displays the words, phrases or sentences that scored highest in the program's statistical model, but also any close contenders.
Lord Grantham's "What does one say to a singer?" was a close eyebrow contender.
As you can see from the figures above, Apple is not winning in terms of having the most ubiquitous platform — and it's not even a close second contender.
Another close contender is Les Noces, whose Stravinsky score has been used by Javier de Frutos, and Fokine's 1910 The Firebird, whose own Stravinsky score has been used by Maurice Béjart, for an all-male cast by John Taras for Dance Theatre of Harlem's Caribbean version, and by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky.
