Sentence examples for bottom marks from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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).

Create new reference marks by measuring up ½" from the bottom marks, ½" down from the top marks, and ½" in toward the center of the door from the vertical edge marks.

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.