Sentence examples for half the contests from inspiring English sources

And yet, the insurgent candidates won 11 of 23 races, or nearly half the contests.

City led for half the contest and squandered chances to put the game beyond Hull.

Ah Van was shown a straight red for a dangerous shot on England international Josh Charnley midway through the first half, and had Wigan taken their chances towards the end of that first half the contest could have produced a much different outcome, as the Vikings continued to reel.

Even with this handicap, Oxbridge has won half of the contests of the Jeremy Paxman era.

In fact, it only stood candidates in half of the contests, and achieved first or second place in none of them.

A number of factors may combine to carry the contest well into the spring: the rise of the so-called "super PACs," which can spend unlimited amounts of money to help the candidates of their choice; new Republican rules allowing even losers to claim percentages of delegates in more than half of the contests this year; and the never-say-die ethos of the Gingrich campaign.

In a tough match that included yellow cards for some fearful tackles, Madrid risked its goalie and captain, Iker Casillas, for more than half the contest after he appeared to be groggy, maybe even concussed, after he banged heads with his own defender, Pepe.

After reading the article, they peruse the "Woman's World" photo feature and look at the winners of Mr. Kristof's "Half the Sky" contest.

Altogether fewer than half of the contest entries were completely correct.

Everton's resistance was all the more impressive considering there were periods early in the first half when the contest looked uneven.

But although it was a historic night, there as nothing memorable about the dour, error-riddled first half of the contest.