Sentence examples for first five yards from inspiring English sources

Experience takes care of the first five yards in football".

"It just means literally the first five yards.

They'll get you the first five yards but then you're on your own.

That was one of my strengths of my game - the first five yards, to beat a player.

He can gain three yards of separation within the first five yards, and that's tough to do.

"In the end they told me that, basically, I would never be quite quick enough over the first five yards," he recalls.

The first ten yards were simply survival.

Over those vital first ten yards or so, he was beyond pursuit.

"Obviously, if you're a political analyst, you'd say, 'How was his first ten yards?"' he said.

I pull over into a bus stop, having successfully completed the first twenty yards of the journey home.

Even as I'm running the first hundred yards, I'm thinking of the chocolate at the end of the Regent's canal rainbow.