Sentence examples for on the brink of finishing from inspiring English sources

And yet El Tri were unable to score at the Azteca, dropping points like flies and on the brink of finishing fifth in the group and missing out.

She and the excellent David Threlfall - who played Frank as a drunk always on the brink of finishing a sentence - would lay out an improvised scene and then "a child would do something that threw you off course.

Four years on, they are only just on the brink of a return having finished seventh last season.

The result lifted the Devon club into the top four, putting them on the brink of their highest ever finish, though Baxter, when questioned, harked back to the infamous 'fat lady'.

Josh says he's on the brink of completion, but he can't finish anything, a truth of which his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), is increasingly aware.

But Leicester took advantage of a Quins turnover on the brink of half-time when Vereniki Goneva finished superbly.

In the 1947 48 season the club finished in twentieth place, on the brink of being relegatied from the League's Division one for the first time.

A volcanic ash cloud shut down airspace over Britain for six days; an oil-rig explosion knocked £20bn off the value of the UK's largest company, and the eurozone finished the year on the brink of collapse.

Liverpool are on the brink of winning a first league title since 1990, 12 months after they finished seventh in the Premier League.

Delta, whose stock has lost 72.4% this year to finish last week at $3.26, is itself teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

I had just finished my post-college graduate travels throughout Europe and the Middle East and found myself on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.