Sentence examples for being more closely fought from inspiring English sources

The presidential run-off vote in Brazil on Sunday is the tightest the country has seen in years and nowhere is the election being more closely fought than in the state of Minas Gerais.

In the US, the top places are more closely fought, with House of Cards coming in just ahead of Breaking Bad, and Dexter taking third place.

Best Actress The Best Actress race has been more closely fought in terms of Google's search trends this year, with different nominees jumping into the lead at various points over the past 30 days.

Because of the incredible dynamism of its post-referendum politics, Scotland is likely to be more closely fought and watched than any other regional battleground, its polls currently pointing to large SNP gains from Labour and the Lib Dems.

This slight shrinking of the roster feels appropriate for a race that has been more closely fought than usual – at least half this year's best picture nominees have looked like potential winners at one point or another, though it appears to have boiled down to a squeaker between two oppositely-styled independents from the same mini-major studio.

The second half was more closely fought but Louis Picamoles' sin-binning proved costly for France.

The Second Test at Old Trafford was more closely fought.

It is being more closely watched right now, when, he said, Israeli sympathizers believe "that Israel is literally in a fight for its life".

"Of course, he's being more closely watched".

One, Nolan Fox, moved to the area after graduating from the University of Florida in May because he wanted to help Obama and thought Virginia would be even more closely fought than his home state.

With the two frontrunning candidates now neck-and-neck in the first-round polls, it is turning out to be a far more closely fought contest than many had imagined it would be.