Sentence examples similar to in a normal run from inspiring English sources

"In the last eight years, the sport has just leapt forward in terms of the tricks people are doing and what is considered a normal run in a contest," Clark said during an October interview in New York, guessing that her 2002 gold medal run might be good enough only to reach the finals of an ordinary event now.

Noth, who, at 53 3/4, has a couple of years on Kim Samantha' Cattralll (aka the oldest woman ever to draw breath, if you believe the majority of media commentators, chaps who apparently never have to so much as look at a woman older than 25 in the normal run of things).

People close to Sarkozy like to say that he is an American manqué, meaning that in the normal run of twentieth-century things, his family — Greek Jews on his mother's side, minor Hungarian nobles on his father's — would have kept going west and ended up in New York, where he would now be running a private bank and sitting on museum boards.

In the normal run of editing, thus alienating a big chunk of potential audience, and further suggesting to a reader that they might prefer another book would be met with a red pen, exclamation marks and quite a few uses of the word "no".

Celebrities actually want to receive what in the normal run of things would be considered a forfeit, to prove they are game for a laugh, and so they can be part of the phenomenon (or be seen to be part of the phenomenon).

"Trials and Tribble-ations" was first released in the normal run of VHS issues as part of a two episode cassette alongside "The Assignment" in the United Kingdom on October 1 , 1999

In the normal run of things, the Guardian books desk is a logocentric location, but there are moments when even we are lost for words - and one of those moments arrived today, with this picture of Terry Pratchett and companion taking receipt of the 2012 Bollinger Wodehouse Prize.

The choice of the victim was, in the normal run of things, capricious.

In the normal run of politics, this was tantamount to betrayal.

"We need recognition for what we achieve in the normal run of life," Abdulhadi says.

It was surely key to British newspaper editors' thinking that, in the normal run of things, they would not have published such cartoons in the first place.