Sentence examples for a previous contest from inspiring English sources

In a previous contest, he said, he sent his pizza in too early, and it got lost in the shuffle.

The $1 million bonus has resulted in "a pretty significant increase" in entries, said a spokesman for Frito-Lay in Plano, Tex., Chris Kuechenmeister to more than 1,700 from about 1,100 for a previous contest.

Again, yes, if it's by Edmund Conti of Summit, whom I know from a previous contest can get ornery if he doesn't win something: It takes more than pentametric iambi To discuss all the woes of Giambi.

Which naturally sets the stage for one of the "serious" entries to take top honours instead, with Russia's Dima Bilan (who finished second to Finland in 2006) and his Timbaland-produced ballad Believing, Ukraine's cracking Kylie soundalike Shady Lady, and Sweden's Charlotte Perrelli - a previous contest winner in 1999 - all in the frame.

For garish synergies alone, "American Idol" dwarfs all previous contests.

Here's a few examples of previous contest winners for inspiration, but, as a personal request, let's see if we can break the tired leitmotif of bored dudes in drippy eye-liner hanging out in a forest.

By voting for the Tatra, readers of nytimes.com again demonstrated a fondness for the unusual: the winner of the previous contest was a custom car called the Marquis de Soto, built from the bones of a Mercury and parts from 11 other old cars, including a '57 De Soto.

That became a theme of the day, as the first two jockeys home in the Drinmore Novice Chase were Mark Walsh and Barry Geraghty, who had been involved in a nasty incident in the previous contest, Geraghty's mount bringing down Walsh's.

Just as exit polls showed in each previous contest this year, a plurality of voters in Florida said that the most important candidate quality was the ability to beat President Obama (nearly half of all responses).

Like the previous contest (won by a young man named Ryan Mense), this is a comment contest.

In their previous contest, Mr. Kagen, an allergist, spent millions of his own money.