Sentence examples for close-run affair from inspiring English sources

It was a close-run affair.

The sale, though exciting, was far from a close-run affair.

But should her vote fall much below 45%, that loss of momentum could yet turn the run-off into a nail-bitingly close-run affair.

However, it was a desperately close-run affair, with the pro-Union campaigners terrified right until the votes were counted that they'd lost.

The final was a close-run affair with the Australian quartet marginally ahead for most of the four kilometres – never more than a second – but with Wiggins and company pulling slightly in front with three laps to go, before Clancy slipped off the pace in the final metres.

The final in Seattle was a close-run affair.

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Neither of us, I think, are surprised that the referendum seems likely to be a mighty close run affair.

A decision against the original owner of the ihateryanair.co.uk website in 2010 was a closer run affair.

It would be a close-run thing.

That was a close run thing though.