Sentence examples for distant runner up from inspiring English sources

Georgetown University scores the distant runner up spot, with 20 members of Congress counted as alumni, followed by Yale University with 18.

But a distant runner-up, surely, in this race.

Arizona's Brandon Webb, last year's winner, was a distant runner-up with 94 points.

The distant runner-up is the M-16 and its descendants, which have been reproduced fewer than 10 million times.

NBC was a distant runner-up, garnering a season high for "Chuck" (7.6 million) and 7.8 million viewers for "Heroes".

But a strangely subdued note was struck by the keynote speaker, Senator John McCain, the self-described "distant runner-up".

Jacques Demy's graceful, candy-colored "Donkey Skin" (1970) is the distant runner-up, a movie that treats an exceptionally disturbing story with a disconcertingly light touch.

In a survey he conducted, 57percentt of beet growers cited weeds as their biggest problem, with diseases the distant runner-up at 16percentt.

This year's Republican primary contests ended with the curious obsession of the distant runner-up, the Texas senator Ted Cruz, with transgender people's access to public bathrooms.

CBS was a distant runner-up on the night with "Big Brother" at 8 (6.6 million) and a repeat of "CSI" at 9 (7.3 million).

Lion Heart was second in the Kentucky Derby and Rock Hard Ten was a distant runner-up behind Smarty Jones in the Preakness.