Sentence examples for retaining first from inspiring English sources

The University of Cambridge is at the top of the league table, retaining first place for the sixth year running, followed by Oxford and St Andrews in the Guardian's undergraduate university league table.

As this is a season that ends with the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil the prospect of Hart not playing regular first team football would harm his chances of retaining first choice status with England.

We converted the floating-point output models of Maxent into integer grids (retaining first 3 decimals), which are easier to manipulate in a GIS-framework, using the Raster Calculator in ArcMap 9.3.

CHICAGO UNIVERSITY'S Booth School of Business retains first place in The Economist's annual ranking of full-time MBA programmes.

Scotland defeated Ukraine, 3-1, to retain first place in Group B and increase the likelihood that Italy or France will be missing from next year's tournament in Austria and Switzerland.

The Conservatives also want to reduce the size of the Commons, to 585, but to retain first past the post (FPTP).

Goldman Sachs only just retained first place in the league table of advisers on mergers and acquisitions during the first half of this year, according to mergermarket, a research group.

Rival Hewlett-Packard retained first place, shipping 15.9 million units and taking 18% of the market.

Its Global Competitiveness Report sees the UK rise one spot to ninth on the list, while Switzerland and Singapore retain first and second place.

Vettel retained first place withstanding Alonso's attempts to pass, while behind Hamilton and Webber collided at the first corner – dropping the drivers to seventh and fourteenth respectively.

Evans retains second place overall, 23 seconds behind the Spaniard and eight seconds ahead of Leipheimer.