Sentence examples for particularly close match from inspiring English sources

When play was slow, there were several possible reasons: a particularly close match, complex conventions requiring much study of defensive methods, naturally slow players and difficult hands.

Watching her lodgers in flagrante, she feels "like a tennis umpire overseeing a particularly close-fought match" and wonders if she's the first creditor to have been paid in this "tumultuous currency".

Jimmie Foxx is a fairly close match for Pujols, particularly because they both started as third basemen, and Johnny Mize and Hank Greenberg were not far behind.

From the Siwaliks, Sivaceros vedicus is also a close match for T. abyssinicus, particularly the horn core of S. cf. vedicus illustrated by Pilgrim [5].

Dogs are often a close match for human disorders, particularly for cardiovascular disease [ 75].

Hazard has started all 36 Premier League matches and, considering the particularly close attention he receives from opponents, that is a feat in itself".

And in the last match on 9, Scott and Dufner both find the putting surface in regulation, though neither are particularly close.

It is notable that these predicted values are a close match to those experimentally determined for the purified TorA TorD His and TorAΔSP TorD His complexes, with the values particularly close for the TorA TorD His complex (Supplementary Table S2).

Particularly close elections".

No one came particularly close.

They were particularly close.