Sentence examples for made a reasonable start from inspiring English sources

She made a reasonable start against Romania's Sorana Cirstea, but errors soon started to flow from her racket as freely as water down the nearby River Yarra.

Mr. Bush made a reasonable start in January at untangling the immigration mess -- a guest worker plan that he stressed was not an amnesty.

Journalists at Nigeria's dozens of lively, opinionated newspapers, who once risked being roughed up or worse by the security forces, now work unmolested.On the economy, too, Mr Obasanjo has made a reasonable start.

Martin said: "The company has made a reasonable start in the current year, but any forecasts for the full year are inevitably tentative, with nine months still to go – and the outlook for the current financial year is unchanged".

England made a reasonable start on the first day, but a late wicket brought D'Oliveira in to bat with the game delicately poised.

3 WAYWARD PRINCE (Hilary Parrott) Has essentially started to go backwards after making a reasonable start for his trainer and makes very little appeal.

The NSC has made a reasonable if patchy start, but it has a lot to prove.

Tuszynski made a reasonable play.

She and Tommy have made a reasonable go of it.

IM Simon Williams made 4.5/11 after a reasonable start of 3.5/7 but a weak finish while Richard Almond, who plays for Hastings and St Leonards and is rated just 2073 (about 184) belied his rating to make 4/11 including wins against two IMs and a draw against grandmaster Luc Winants (Belgium).

Of the species for which PMRNs have been calculated so far, almost all do indeed have negative slopes (e.g., North Sea plaice (Grift et al. 2003; van Walraven et al. 2010); Northern cod (Olsen et al. 2004); American plaice (Barot et al. 2005); North Sea sole (Mollet et al. 2007); and Icelandic cod (Pardoe et al. 2009)), making this a reasonable starting assumption for R. argentea.