Sentence examples for match contest from inspiring English sources

The good news first: what could easily have been a damp soggy wreck of a pointless series has actually shaped up quite nicely: a short, sharp, three match contest between two sides vying for second place in the ODI rankings (with a runaway leader a mile out of sight) boiling down to a decider on the picturesque south coast.

Photos: The Daily News announced last night that it would add $1 million for more prizes in its Scratch n' Match contest after thousands of people showed up earlier in the day at the newspaper's building on 31st Street at 10th Avenue to redeem cards they had thought entitled them to win up to $100,000.

That's why non-profit and political fundraising campaigns rely on "match" contests and end-of-quarter drives: my small donation feels that much more important when people on the inside take notice.

Arsenal's narrow advantage, after it won the first of this two-match contest, was gone.

Their passion, and the scarcity of these occasions, made this match the hot ticket of the entire event — an 18-day, 15-match contest in One Day International format for the eight leading nations in cricket.

A two-match contest between the best teams in the world is like playing baseball's World Series over three games — it is over when there is an appetite for much more, with subplots and rivalries still unfolding.

The inaugural series earlier this year included the top three finishers in Super League but the event will take on a new look next February, with the Wembley winners joining the Grand Final champions and the winners of the League Leaders Shieldd in the three-match contest against a trio of leading Australian clubs.

It is easy to forget now that, at the time, the two men were seen to be taking part in an evenly matched contest.

What for the most part was an open, evenly matched contest descended into farce in the last half hour as any semblance of efficient defending disappeared.

In an evenly matched contest like this there is always a danger the managers will compromise their regular game plan by attempting to negate the other side's strength.

In fact, the teams look well-balanced for a three-match contest.