Sentence examples for bottom mark from inspiring English sources

He went round the bottom mark in second.

After a shaky spinnaker drop, the San Francisco boat rounded the bottom mark 19 seconds astern.

At the bottom mark, America One rounded 1 27 ahead of Prada.

When they reconvened at the bottom mark, the Australians were a distant eighth.

America One discovered a tad more pressure and, aided by a botched Italian jibe, closed Prada's lead to 1 04 at the bottom mark.

Before they rounded the bottom mark 23 seconds behind Prada, America One lost command of its spinnaker, which drifted into the water, and continued without a headsail.

Nine of the 12 judges' scores are chosen at random, the top and bottom marks eliminated and the remaining seven averaged out to give the final score.

The rating agencies now award the big ones an investment-grade rating only because they are too big to fail; without the government's support, they would get bottom marks.So far have their share prices fallen that in April the market capitalisation of the banks big enough to be listed on Japan's Topix share index had withered to some $140 billion.

Professor Ransome died shortly after his son achieved bottom marks in the scholarship exam for Rugby school, and Arthur inherited his moral rectitude, his love of the countryside, and a deeply-seated conviction that he had failed his father in every sense that mattered.

PC(A)=0, so PC scores bottom marks (−λA).

AC/K is also true, PC AC/K =1, and PC scores top marks (λAC/K), while PK AC/K =0, and PK scores bottom marks (−λAC/K).