Sentence examples for contest appear from inspiring English sources

But conventional statistics make the contest appear closer than it was.

Train operators fear the revised rail franchise timetable announced in the wake of the west coast fiasco is already slipping as documents for the first contest appear likely to be delayed until autumn.

Although play will begin half an hour before the scheduled start, hopes of a meaningful contest appear over after two blank days.

The 14-times major winner's frosty relationship with this biennial contest appears to have thawed.

"A contest appears to be a useful way of synchronizing people's activities," Malone said.

In the evening, with so few votes in, the contest appeared to be highly competitive.

The 27,000-strong crowd, which had anticipated a hard-fought contest, appeared similarly dazed.

The most detailed report of that grand contest appeared in 1874 in Col. Daniel R. Hundley's diary.

The contest appears to be narrowing to a race between Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, a Democrat, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.

But the shadow Foreign Secretary, who has been the front runner throughout the contest, appeared to be embarrassed yesterday by Lord Mandelson's unsolicited support.

But analysts said the Pentagon's new scoring system for the contest appeared to favor Boeing's bid, which was based on its 767.