Sentence examples for competitions were staged from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Young, editor of The Field, says that in the 19th Century these competitions were staged with live pigeons, a practice discontinued in the UK after campaigning by the magazine.

They won the last time the competition was staged on German soil, in 1974.

The field on which the recent Istanbul competition was staged is said to have been used for the same purpose centuries ago.

The International 20 20 Club Championship, English cricket's great forgotten ghost ship of a Twenty20 competition, was staged only once, over three rain-sodden days in September 2005.

Humperdinck finished last but one in 2012 with ballad Love Will Set You Free when the competition was staged in Baku, Azerbaijan.

They are followed by county heats before the national competition is staged between 4 and 9 June near Caernarfon.

Fourteen teams will be competing in this year's World Cup but that is to be cut to 10 when the competition is staged in England in 2019.

The Champions Trophy began life in 1998 as the ICC Knock Out Tournament and was played every two years until 2008, when security fears in host nation Pakistan resulted in competition being staged in South Africa a year later.

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team finished fourth the last time the competition was staged, in Stockholm in 2011, with the men's team's victory in 2008 coming in its previous guise of the Europa Cup.

Attention now turns to the ICC Women's World Twenty20, which begins in Bangladesh on 16 March, as England attempt to regain the title they won in 2009, when the inaugural competition was staged on home soil.

The girls have stuck together and to win out here back to back is pretty special". Attention now turns to the ICC Women's World Twenty20, which begins in Bangladesh on 16 March, as England attempt to regain the title they won in 2009, when the inaugural competition was staged on home soil.