That means they will be playing sudden-death rugby from the start of the play-offs and will have to win three matches merely to reach the Old Trafford grand final, compared with the express route they took after finishing top last year.
For example, a good-natured American tennis player of the 1970s, Roscoe Tanner, had height, a fearsome left-handed serve and not much else to his game, which helps explain why he won only one Grand Slam tournament compared with the four won by Guillermo Vilas, a stocky, poetry-writing Argentinian contemporary who could hit groundstrokes all day.
There was a high prevalence of meconium-stained liquor, malpresentation and placenta previa in grand multiparas as compared with the lower-parity group, a finding that is in concurrence with other studies [ 4, 21, 45].
But they are a modest bet compared with the grand ambitions of Teledesic.
To Mr. Coppola, "The Conversation" remains his best and most personal film (introspective chamber music compared with the grand opera of "The Godfather" films).
It's eerie to think of the vibrancy of the terminal's grand foyer in the 1920s, compared with the silence and emptiness of today.
City Opera used to be a roguish young company compared with the grand dame of Joseph Volpe's Metropolitan Opera.
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software world.
What he means, he explains, is that these MPs' extra thousands are chicken feed compared with the grand larceny all around us.
The school-lunch program seems prosaic when compared with the grander schemes of abandoning agricultural subsidies, dropping trade barriers and investing in rural development that are being debated by 80 world leaders at the United Nations meeting on world hunger.
