Sentence examples for close a team from inspiring English sources

It's hard to close a team out.

A magic number is a number used to indicate how close a team is to clinching a playoff spot.

"It's tough to close a team out because they're scrapping and fighting for everything, as we are over here," he said, comparing those Red Sox to these Yankees.

Mackay was particularly pleased that his side had run close a team that the previous weekend had hammered his Championship rivals, Brighton, 6-1 in the FA Cup.

"I won't be coming back [next year] and I'd like to get to as close a team that Matthew would like for next year". Hopes of a place in the quarter-finals of the Friends Life Twenty20 were all but ended with defeat to Somerset but with four games remaining, starting with a trip to Sussex on Thursday, Petersen has faith in a new-look side.

The Robocalypse is coming closer and closer: a team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology and Tokyo City University, led by Dr. Petar Kormushev, has "taught" Fujitsu HOAP-2, a mini humanoid, how to clean a whiteboard.

The closer a team gets to the NBA title, the more its minor flaws can become magnified in the public eye.

I'd much rather we had been close and a team as we were at the Treasury.

"It is important that we consider that we are as close to a team as we have ever been starting in January," he said.

The Patriots are so young that they must have wondered if they would be able to close out a team as talented and resilient as the Steelers.

Brownfield realized the Mustangs had come close with a team that consisted mostly of underclassmen.