Sentence examples for a fair match from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a fair match" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a competition or situation where the participants have equal chances of winning or succeeding.
Example: "The two teams are evenly matched, making it a fair match for the championship title."
Alternatives: "an even contest" or "a balanced competition."

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It was not a fair match.

Grint has not looked a fair match for Watson, but he does his gingery best.

She was a fair match in toughness for John Wayne in the western "Rooster Cogburn" (1975).

Norwich were keen to set Murphy against Rüdiger, although it was a fair match for pace.

The comparison of these measurements with the acoustic activity of the material showed a fair match in terms of quantification and localisation of damage.

A reviewer committed to realism or naturalism doesn't make a fair match with an experimental or post-modernist writer.

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So, 10 to Kubrick, one and a half (two if we're generous) to Nolan – hardly a fair match-up.

"It will be a fair match-up," Dick said.

To seek the possible origin of risk-seeking when there is no apparent benefit, we asked whether the stochastic process of evolution itself, operating over many generations, would show a preference for high or low risk in a "fair" match-up in which the expected number of offspring of each organism was unaltered by taking the risk.

In a few years, there will probably be enough good Java software around to make it a fairer match.

The 71-Test veteran also accounted for Adam Voges (12) in a bizarre caught-and-bowled that at first looked like a bump ball but was shown to be a fair catch by the TV match official.

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