Sentence examples for performance a close from inspiring English sources

His volley for Arsenal's second goal was sheer class and the performance a close second.

Knowing you have only one shot turns play into a performance, a closed-off and intensified space, one that offers the potential for intimate self-knowledge and an intense awareness.

"The two performances have been very different - we could have won against Toulouse in a high standard performance in a close game.

John Isner, meanwhile, is the standout local hope, coming off three straight wins over top-10 players and an impressive performance in a close losing effort against Nadal in the Cincinnati Open on Sunday.

The precision threshold gleans the highest F-Score performance, producing a close balance between the precision and recall (0.5 and 0.48) for the classes.

She dedicated her performance to a close friend who died in an accident last year, channeling that pain through the music.

Apparently satisfied with his time in the spotlight, he brings his performance to a close with a nice little ditty about his parents boning.

Their receptive language skills and auditory performance have a close association with these problems, respectively.

The performance of a closed-access system is compared against the performance of the same distribution of users using the aforementioned resource partitioning scheme.

As the nightlong performance drew to a close, over at St. Paul's Cathedral a different kind of theater was starting the second week of its continuous run.

But as his 75-minute performance drew to a close, Mr. Daughtry was starting to seem like the musical equivalent of negative space.