Sentence examples for a piece behind from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(1)

The phrase "a piece behind" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something is lacking or delayed, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "The project is a piece behind schedule due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "a bit behind" or "lagging behind".

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Why not support its musicality by having a musician play a piece behind you while you speak?

After Gulko's 20 Nf4! Radjabov could not play 20... cd 21 Ne6 Bh6 22 Kb1 Rd7 23 Be5 Rg8 24 cd because White has a winning endgame (24... Nd5? 25 Rd5 Rd5 26 Nc7 Kd7 27 Nd5 Ke6 28 Bf4 g5 29 Nc7 Kd7 30 Be5 leaves Black a piece behind).

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Chunks of wood may be remains of a dead tree stump or branch, but if they also carry tool marks, this shows human activity even if it was simply chopping up firewood and a piece fell behind.

For the arrows, there will be a plastic piece behind the arrows you will have to pop off with a flat-head screwdriver.

On a wall piece behind the bridge side-by-side lengths of the same material bear hammer bruises and a scattering of bent nails.

They were on a piece of lawn behind a sign that read, "Please Keep Off — Recently Seeded".

(A popular type of printed Advent calendar offers a piece of chocolate behind each day's "door").

One is Thérèse Lahaie, who makes kinetic wall sculptures consisting of a rotating motor that flutters a piece of fabric behind a mottled, vividly lighted sheet of tinted glass.

Mr. Brown, officials said, had been seen dragging a piece of steel behind a vehicle, sending sparks flying into dry brush off a mountain road.

(Several years ago, one N.Y.P.D. squad member disarmed a suicide bomber. He placed a piece of cardboard behind the trigger, and the explosives were carefully lifted away).

To fix a water leak last month, workers cut out a piece of wall behind the stove in Pian Tam's apartment at the Alfred E. Smith houses in Lower Manhattan.

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