Sentence examples for contest long from inspiring English sources

Try as Liverpool might, the reality was that United should have buried the contest long before the end.

Nevada, chosen by the Democratic Party to hold an early contest long before numerous other states decided to move their primaries to Feb. 5, has been largely overshadowed by Iowa, New Hampshire and, to a lesser degree, South Carolina.

These days when his serve falters, as it did last night, he appears like a sitting duck, for he lacks the stamina to contest long points with young guns like Hewitt.

The Tottenham Hotspur debutant was granted the last quarter of the contest, just as the first Mexican waves were whipping round the stadium, but even with the contest long since settled his impact was remarkable.

They were the side with the puncher's chance, who stayed in the contest long enough to catch their young and vibrant opponents.

France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.

Only in more recent elections, as campaigning has become more expensive and the calendars increasingly compressed, have so many candidates dropped out within weeks of the first contests, long before anyone has a lock on the nomination.

Complaints that it should have done so well before this year's contest have long been academic.

The 154th race promises to be a good contest, so long as it is not messed up by the weather.

Chelsea had done well to stay in the contest as long as they did but they always lacked cohesion.

By contrast, this year's contest has long been scheduled and voters might well punish a party that brought them back to the polling booths in a hurry.