Sentence examples for half a second ahead from inspiring English sources

Beijing gold medallist Kenyan Asbel Kiprop was just half a second ahead of Gregson in sixth, with New Zealand's Nicholas Willis grabbing a surprise bronze, another half second further ahead.

And so the most physically debilitating event of the water-based Olympics came down to the final two strokes, with Risztov raising a prune-like palm to slap the finish board half a second ahead of Anderson.

The world champion was half a second ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.

The Spaniard clocked two minutes 0.286 seconds in Sepang to finish half a second ahead of six-time MotoGP champion Rossi.

Rosberg was 0.184 seconds clear of the world champion and half a second ahead of the two Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel.

His leg moved Australia into second place at the halfway mark, just 0.45 s behind the hosts and roughly half a second ahead of the British and the Hungarians.

Barratt not only held firm but moved Australia ahead another half a second, but an 0.89 second buffer was not enough for Tamisin Cook to prevent Ledecky from streaking clear to take gold for Team USA by a couple of body lengths.

Sailer himself narrowly recovered from a near fall and came in three and a half seconds ahead of Switzerland's Raymond Fellay to claim the gold medal sweep.

As she had on Saturday, she won with a blistering final 50 meters, covering it more than a half-second faster than the silver medalist, Alicia Coutts of Australia, and nearly one and a half seconds ahead of Caitlin Leverenz of the United States, who won the bronze in 2 08.95.

When the pole-sitter, Kimi Raikkonen, closed the first lap three and a half seconds ahead of Schumacher's Ferrari teammate, Rubens Barrichello, who started second, it looked like Schumacher's luck had turned.

"250 meters is still just like 7 and a half seconds ahead".