Sentence examples for much a competition from inspiring English sources

But back in 1960-61 it was very much a competition in its own right, full of useless teams who had fluked victory in their own domestic knockout.

It wasn't supposed to be much of a competition.

In 2007, before the onset of the credit crunch and financial crisis, Gordon Brown, the then prime minister, announced with much fanfare a competition to build 10 "eco-towns".

No, the city with the best claim on sports misery sits a few hundred miles east of Chicago, and it isn't really much of a competition.

"These are going to be tough campaigns, but my guess is it won't be as much of a competition as one might expect," he said.

"They have higher skills than Jordanians and therefore compete with Jordanians on the same market segment... Syrian children work in sectors Jordanians would want to work in and are as much of a competition as adult Syrians".

Amanda Tarleton, Hammersmith Presented between 1935-37, the Oscar for the year's best screen choreography was largely discontinued as it was felt there were too few candidates for the category to be much of a competition.

In the end, though, it wasn't much of a competition, Weiler says.

If David had thrown a clump of dirt at Goliath, there wouldn't have been much of a competition.

Maybe we shouldn't think about it as wins and losses, because that sounds too much like a competition, and parenting isn't a competition.

While this issue is much bigger than a competition between any two countries, it does show how much can be accomplished when even one nation commits to action.