Sentence examples for been contested for more from inspiring English sources

There are at least a dozen varieties of motor sports extant in the United States, some of them having been contested for more than a century.

Add two more bans (for left back Fábio Coentrão and winger Ángel di María) to the injuries to the defenders Pepe and Marcelo, and it becomes easy to understand why Real would blood a teenager in a match of this intensity — a match that has been contested for more than a century and stands at 88 victories for Madrid, 87 for Barça and 48 draws.

The results of the Nov. 7 election were contested for more than a month until George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, was awarded Florida's 25 electoral votes, and thus the White House.

"It's a working-class town that's been suffering from a real loss of services". Fired up by the possibilities of localism and their experience of fighting – successfully – to keep open a library and swimming pool, she and other residents resolved to stand for town council seats that had not been contested for "20 or more years".

Fired up by the possibilities of localism and their experience of fighting – successfully – to keep open a library and swimming pool, she and other residents resolved to stand for town council seats that had not been contested for "20 or more years".

The South China Sea has been contested for centuries.

In the case of HSV1, the mechanism of envelopment has been contested for many years.

The details of his crime would be contested for decades.

Although England have been the superior side for most of the series, perhaps it would have been contested more closely had Australia not been prone to silly mistakes.

(By the way, Labour's claim that cutting the top rate of tax will cost the Treasury £3bn is contested. For more details, here's the transcript of Andrew Neil having a row about this with Ed Balls).

But he added that he considered him competitive in Florida, where the 2000 election was bitterly contested for more than five weeks.