Sentence examples for just three points away from inspiring English sources

Ahead of Saturday's game away to Lazio, Torino found themselves joint-seventh, just three points away from the Europa League places.

In the final four minutes Tuesday night, with Bynum just three points away from the first 20-point, 20-rebound performance of his career, Kobe took seven shots in three minutes.

Brendan Rodgers' side are looking a far inferior team to the one that was just two points away from winning the league last season.

The gains put the S.& P. 500 just nine points away from its record closing high, which it reached in October 2007.

The win lifts the Jets above the Phoenix into seventh spot and they are now just four points away from the top six.

"You don't think about the semifinal, but you think that you are just two points away from winning a very good match.

The Chicago Fire now stand just six points away from a playoff spot – with a game in hand on sixth place DC United.

For so long the division's best Basque team, now they're the division's worst, and they're looking anxiously at the relegation zone just five points away.

Dale had won six of their previous seven, rising in the process from 16th and just five points away from the relegation zone on 20 February, to eighth and five points off the play-offs on Easter Sunday.

Just two points away from winning on four occasions while portions of the crowd turned hostile toward her, the 36-year-old Williams faded as Saturday night's match stretched past three hours and she was stunned 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) by Flipkens on day one of tennis at the Rio Olympics.

Late goals from Walter Ayoví and Pablo Palacios – the second coming seven minutes before full-time – condemned Diego Maradona's men to their fourth defeat in the South American qualifying stage, leaving them in fourth spot and just two points away from slipping out of the automatic qualification places.