Sentence examples for competed before from inspiring English sources

The little-known race featured 127 runners who competed before some 100 spectators, most of whom were family members and friends.

This year, a hundred and five boats (at a fifty-dollar entry fee apiece) competed before a crowd of about two thousand in the event's two days.

Mr Obama has 81 field offices across the state, many in places where Democrats have never competed before, compared with Mr McCain's three dozen.

With hardly a breath between races and jumps, some of the world's best athletes competed before a crowd of 11,800 at Madison Square Garden.

(At least one "new schooler" competed before. Hint: She also once ran for governor of California). Those contestants are from a new sphere of political analysis that didn't exist before George W. Bush won in 2000.

Bloomberg Businessweek: Rev up the Fryolator; it's the semiannual French Fry Evaluation at McDonald's Corporation, where the company's three main spud suppliers — McCain foods, J.R. Simplot and Lamb Weston — competed before 15 tasters.

'Yes, because I'd never been outside Wales to compete before.' After this he went on the junior circuit.

But the new companies tended to be high-premium ones that could not compete before, and Mr. Hunter maintains that the state's claim of having lower premiums as a result of deregulation is statistically illusory.

"They have the arsenal to compete on levels with which they've never been able to compete before," says Crawford Del Prete, executive vice president of research at IDC. "[But] we really need to see what plays they want to run".

That's not a question of their inequality as such, it's a question of the grinding nature of a global economy in which they now have to compete in ways they never had to compete before".

How many times and for how many years do they compete before reaching the Olympics?