Sentence examples for a narrow second from inspiring English sources

Toyota came a narrow second to GM in 2007.Temporary respite?The price of oil continued to fall back from recent highs.

Messi was in Zurich to attend the Ballon d'Or gala where Cristiano Ronaldo was crowned the best player in the world for 2014, with the Argentinian finishing a narrow second ahead of Manuel Neuer.

3 VESPER BELL (Willie Mullins) Stays well, as finished a narrow second in a marathon event at the Punchestown Festival and could be better than shown so far this season, but a fall in the Becher Chase dampens optimism.

After being second-tier drug makers for years, Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc would have $11.25 billion in global drug sales, a narrow second to Merck & Company, according to I.M.S. Health, a consulting firm.

Mount said that Fishing in Utopia had been the unanimous choice for judges with Mark Thompson's account of the Italian front during the first world war, The White War, coming in a narrow second.

The Fugue again didn't get the clearest of runs through the pack before the turn for home and ran on to be a narrow second but she can't be called unlucky this time.

At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, he led a crew of journeymen to a narrow second-round defeat to eventual champion Brazil.

Opposite Fox's coverage of Game 4 of the World Series, which dominated the ratings on Sunday, "Desperate Housewives" helped give ABC a narrow second-place finish for the night.

South Africa took a narrow first-innings lead.

In January 2009 Blackburn Rovers felt fortunate to escape Croft Park with a narrow third-round victory.

Kingston 2004 Victories against West Indies were not quite cheap currency then and England had only a narrow first innings lead going into the third day.