Sentence examples for drop further behind from inspiring English sources

Coming into tonight's game against the Atlanta Beat, the Power had lost five of its last seven games to fall into last place and could ill afford to drop further behind before the halfway point of the Women's United Soccer Association season.

It didn't save "Today" from dropping further behind in total viewers as "GMA" won by more than 350,000 viewers, its biggest margin in 17 years.

Second-place Lazio could have dropped further behind but salvaged a 2-2 tie, while A.C. Milan also salvaged a 3-3 deatlock at home by struggling Verona.

John Vincent said children living in poverty dropped further behind their better-off peers when schools closed and they had no access to free school meals, and they were often physically and mentally unprepared for learning when they returned.

I read on the front page of today's New York Times that the poor are dropping further behind the rich in school.

It was a match in which Real did not want drop any more points and fall further behind the top two going into the winter break.

In some neighborhoods, residents feared that if the service were unavailable in their communities, property values would drop and their schools and hospitals may fall further behind those in affluent areas.

Third grade reading rates are stagnating, 1.2 million students are dropping out before graduation each year, and our students continue to fall further behind their peers around the world.

As others prosper, they fall further behind.

City fall further behind Chelsea.

And we fall further and further behind".