Sentence examples for pair of competitions from inspiring English sources

It's about bodybuilders who are training for a pair of competitions, Mr. Universe (for amateurs) and Mr. Olympia (for professionals), held on successive days in 1975 in Pretoria, South Africa.

There go Tony and Cherie, you'd think, ­grinning out of the holiday photos like a pair of competition winners.

Be the first in your office to have Oxfords‚ brogues‚ or cordovan derbies capable of firing up to 600 rounds of.50 BMG per minute yet with an overall weight of under 5.7oz less than an average pair of competition sprint spikes‚ let alone an M2 Browning.

Thirty years ago in Detroit, a Chinese-American named Vincent Chin was beaten to death by a pair of autoworkers angry at competition from Toyota.

Despite her Olympic uniform restrictions, the 17-year-old managed to show off her sense of style by sporting a pair of pearl earrings throughout the competitions (do we spot a trademark?).

A second and more comprehensive approach was proposed by Damgaard & Fayolle (2010) for quantifying the strength of competition in a pair of plant species as they changed over an environmental gradient (herbicide gradient).

The company are now trialing the glasses on "bold, creative individuals ", giving US citizens the chance to get a pair in a sort of competition (or marketing ploy) where you apply using the Twitter hashtag #ifihadglass and tell the company what you'd use them for in 50 words or less (you still have to pay for them though if they pick you).

Finally, by matching degree of salinity tolerance with levels of syntopy, we found evidence of ecological character displacement between this cryptic species pair, indicating the occurrence of competition-driven divergent natural selection in this trait.

I want to think we show the competition a clean pair of heels.

Guardian Membership competition: win a pair of tickets to see Measure for Measure.

Paradoxically, the pair of Louis XVI imitation candelabra triggered vigorous competition and climbed to £73,250, more than double the price predicted by Christie's.