Sentence examples for better showings from inspiring English sources

Farage had failed to take the Buckinghamshire seat he had stood down to campaign for despite giving one of Ukip's better showings of that election.

Donizetti's version of Sir Walter Scott's "Bride" was one of the Met's better showings in the season just past, and perhaps this luster will carry over to this weekend's outdoor performance in Brooklyn.

Pakistan and Hong Kong had the best showings, with four finalists.

The best showings are from the funds with comparatively low correlations to the S&P.

How can we make it look better for showings?

These are still very early stages in the life of the Di Matteo-Tony Xia reign and, despite the result, it was a far better display by Villa than some of the abject showings last season.

"Carnival Ride" (Arista), her second release, sold 527,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, one of the better opening-week showings in 2007 and the best for a female artist in three years.

Even if Limbaugh's exhortations brought as many of his listeners to the polls as he says, his operation did not cripple Obama, who emerged stronger from the day's primaries after better-than-expected showings with some key groups of voters.

The following month he bettered his previous showings at the World Cross Country Championships with a sixth-place finish.

But when the results go better, as in last season's showings of "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather" (with their sulfurous scores by Leonard Bernstein and Nino Rota, respectively), certain problems remain: Anthony Tommasini, of the Times, had mentioned difficulties in hearing spoken dialogue in that presentation, for example, and the problem persisted in "Manhattan".

All the better for entertaining guests with private showings on an enormous estate.