Sentence examples for by almost four seconds from inspiring English sources
The 35-year-old former dentist was denied top spot on the podium for a third time as Sarah Hammer of the United States clocked 3 minutes 28.601 seconds to win by almost four seconds.
In a sport where tenths, even hundreths, of a second often separate the top few finishers, Teuscher won the freestyle race by better than two seconds and the medley by almost four seconds.
Women's pair world champions Helen Glover and Polly Swann are also through to their final after beating the Dutch duo of Aletta Jorritsma and Heleen Boers by almost four seconds.
The hosts easily won the gold by almost four seconds; Evans and the Australians were third, relegated from the silver medal by just 0.02 s by the Canadian team, having been in the bronze medal position at every change.
Lagat's 13 minutes 11.50 seconds set the mark by almost seven seconds.
The Australians, however, smashed the world record by almost six seconds, the 18th world record to fall in the Water Cube in less than six days.
He ran the same race a year later and improved his pace by almost forty seconds per mile, and a year after that he whittled off fourteen more seconds, to a respectable six minutes and thirty-five seconds per mile.
At the 2000 United States Olympic trials, she was one of the favorites in the 200 I.M. and finished fourth, missing a spot on the team by almost two seconds.
Russia attempt to reel them in with three laps to go the Norwegians start to flag a bit before finding an extra gear and winning by almost five seconds.
Mo Farah marked his first and only appearance on the track in Britain in 2014 – not to mention his twin daughters' second birthday – by smashing the British two- mile record, a mark that has stood for nearly 36 years, by almost six seconds, in Birmingham.
