Sentence examples for poor a match from inspiring English sources

BLAST results with an e-value >10− were not stored in the database, as we considered this would be too poor a match for most research.

Chelsea lost 2-1 at Jose Mourinho's former club, conceding two poor goals in a match in which they were outplayed for large periods.

Critics of the proposal, including some neighborhood activists, think a place for kids to hurtle and soar would be a poor match for a delicate work of sculptural folk-art that's one of just eight places in the city that's been designated by the federal Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark.

The Colonial house, with its stark saltbox lines, seems a poor match for a porch.

But it proved to be a poor match against a single explosive-laden harbor boat.

Although Republican governors as a whole are reasonably popular, there are a number of exceptions — and they are generally those cases where the governor is a poor match for a state's ideological views.

Or workers wanting to switch occupations or employers due to a poor match may use a second job as a source of on-the-job training that will facilitate a utility-enhancing move.

And as "social" is increasingly crossed with "location," a full-size tablet like the Xoom is really a poor match for such a customization.

With his guileless smile and shrinking posture, John Patrick Hayden telegraphs the soft center that makes Tesman such a poor match and such an ideal foil for Hedda.

A high SWR indicates a poor match between transmitter and antenna, which in turn means wasted power and, in extreme cases, damage to the transmitter.

A transcript that has a poor match to existing annotations, but cannot be unambiguously classified as "unannotated" or "intergenic".