Sentence examples for contested few from inspiring English sources

For all his pre-match rosary-bead kissing and po-faced touchline demeanour, Mourinho will have contested few cup finals when his plan was executed quite so smoothly and quite so clinically.

The opposition had never won a GRC, and usually contested fewer than half the seats.

He believed that the Brotherhood had overplayed its hand in the parliamentary election, and that it should have contested fewer seats, allowing more space for liberals and leftists: "This would have created trust and would have helped the system, because everyone would have been raised up, not just the Brotherhood".

Detroit extended the longest losing streak in its annual Thanksgiving showcase to nine in a closely contested matchup few will soon forget.

I successfully contested a few speeding tickets, but failed to register for the driver safety class to knock off the remaining points on my license.

These findings were contested a few years later by Catherine Forster, who reanalyzed Triceratops material more comprehensively and concluded that the remains fell into two species, T. horridus and T. prorsus, although the distinctive skull of T. ("Nedoceratops") hatcheri differed enough to warrant a separate genus.

Tellingly, only a fifth of seizures are contested, and fewer than 1% of appeals are successful.

Even in this year's hotly contested elections, fewer than 60percentt of eligible voters went to the polls.

And many Syrians fleeing combat are more likely to head for areas that are held by the government or are contested, drawing fewer airstrikes or heavy fire.

"Few contested legal questions are answered so consistently by so many courts and judges," Judge Jacobs wrote.

Ferrari and McLaren contested the next few positions, as Alboreto, Rosberg, Johansson and Prost qualified from sixth to ninth.