Sentence examples for needed for a first from inspiring English sources

He had no idea how much yardage he needed for a first down.

The officials start by making a crude measurement of the 10 yards needed for a first down, then later they find that the team missed a first down by less than an inch.

Considering they had a first-team squad consisting of fewer players than needed for a first XI, you could argue they've done pretty well to reach a half-century of players used before the end of March.

When he broke through the  line on the first play after the two-minute warning, he got all the yardage he needed for a first down when he reached the Arizona 3. Greene remained on his feet and appeared to be in position to score, which would have given the Jets a 14-6 leassumingming the extra point.

As of today, the campaign has only raised $6,283 of the $20,000 needed for a first run, with a deadline of March 3.

This time, the goal was not finding someone who could beat Trump to the 1,237 delegates needed for a first ballot victory in Cleveland in July, but instead simply to deny Trump a first ballot victory.

The typical deposit needed for a first-time buyer in London was estimated at more than £84,000.

In that vote, the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, finished ahead of President Robert Mugabe, but without the majority needed for a first-round victory.

If these cooked numbers are allowed to stand, neither candidate would have the 50percentt needed for a first-round victory, forcing an Oct. 8 runoff.

However, his 48.9%, with almost all votes counted, was just shy of the 50% plus one vote he needed for a first-round victory.Even more of a shock was the wafer-thin lead that political outsider Luis Guillermo Solís (pictured right) took in Costa Rica, after focusing his campaign on government corruption.

The Socialists are banking on a divided opposition fielding an array of candidates, none of whom would be likely to take the 50% of the vote needed for a first-round win.The Socialists might prefer to have their candidate run off against an ultra-nationalist paramilitary leader, Vojislav Seselj, who leads the Serbian Radical Party, in the second round.