Sentence examples similar to first-round picking from inspiring English sources

This is particularly necessary for Ms Royal, who trailed Mr Sarkozy in the first round, picking up 26% to his 31%.

Euro 2008 was the first time they qualified – and this time it's as co-hosts – and then they were dumped out in the first round, picking up only one point from their three group games.

They started with 5 of the first 100 picks and promptly traded all the way out of the first round, picking up so many selections that they had 8 in the first three rounds and 13 over all.

The midweek poll, by the canvassing agencies SC&C and STEM, showed the center-right opposition, the Quad-coalition, which won only one Senate seat outright in the first round, picking up another 11 on Sunday.

Or even first-round picks.

This year's first-round pick, he figured.

Parker was a late first-round pick.

Is that a wasted first-round pick?

(Minnesota and Dallas each had two first-round picks).

Plenty of first-round picks flame out.

Definitely a first-round pick.