Sentence examples for hurdles- from inspiring English sources

On his return from Spain he turned down an offer to do an interview with GMTV, headed home to Trowbridge near his Bath training base – where he had a cup of tea with the neighbours, who had looked after his goldfish while he was away – and got on with leaping over hurdles.

There are still regulatory hurdles to overcome and plenty of analysts are alarmed at the price offered: a 50% premium to the share value.

Andy Turner finished in third place in the 110m hurdles.

And then when you're an under-17 you can start doing the 400m hurdles, so I sort of got drafted into doing it for the team and found myself really enjoying it.

This means the bill jumped through the first of many procedural hurdles in that chamber and is now on a glide path to passage.

Personally, because of my event, I'd say Ed Moses for 400m hurdles – he won over a hundred races in a row!

Greene's training partner Jack Green and the European champion, Rhys Williams, also qualified for the next round of the 400m hurdles.

Scotland's Eilidh Child was second in the women's 400m hurdles in 55.62 behind Nigeria's Muizat Odumosu with England's Meghan Beesley seventh.

And in my speech to the NHS Confederation's 2014 annual conference and exhibition on Wednesday, I won't be shying away from some of the major hurdles the health and care sectors face now or those that need addressing in the future.

The 24-year-old, who won 400m gold in the hurdles at the European Championships – the first Briton to do so since Kriss Akabusi in 1990 – scored a penalty against Real Madrid as a 13-year-old playing football for Swansea City.

Even if, as now seems likely, the Irish vote yes to the Lisbon treaty this weekend, there are even greater hurdles for the Fianna Fáil-Green party government to overcome.