Sentence examples for for a distant third from inspiring English sources

An informal survey suggested that Chileans made up the second largest subset, with Americans and French tied for a distant third.

Afterward, when Ripstein had finally figured out what sots don't do ("pass the bar") and Al Sanders had limped in for a distant third, the crowd erupted almost as explosively as had been predicted.

Let "Che" fight it out with "W" for a distant second place.

NBC tied CBS for a distant second place on the night.

The Communist Party, led by Gennady A. Zhuganov, appeared in a close race for a distant second place with the Liberal Democratic Party, led by the xenophobe and nationalist Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky.

Ejegayehu Dibaba, 22, the silver medalist in the 10,000 in Athens, kept pace through 3,000 meters but settled for a distant second in 14 58.25.

Until a few weeks ago, a return of the PRI seemed a foregone conclusion; most polls showed the leftist Mr. López Obrador and the PAN candidate, Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota, battling for a distant second place behind Mr. Peña Nieto.

The current line-up is of Sony's PlayStation 2, the market leader by far, plus Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube, which are fighting for a distant second place.Each gaming boom is bigger than the last.

At this stage in the presidential race, it's exceptionally rare for a distant second-place finisher to still generate the kind of enthusiasm that follows Sanders around the country.

"Allegiant" had to settle for a distant second to "Zootopia," which grossed $16.7 million on Saturday for a beastly weekend total of nearly $38 million, leaping past the $200-million mark in overall cumulative gross.

The weekend's other debut in wide release, "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas," is thus far on track for a distant second place on the charts with an estimated $5.7 million in ticket sales.