Sentence examples for run distant from inspiring English sources

Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam and other cities run distant seconds and thirds when it comes to establishing a European toehold for a US firm.

He has run a distant third in polls.

Albert Gore, who has run a distant third at best, in every contest since Mar.

That's what academies run by distant unaccountable companies wouldn't support.

For most Nicaraguans, environmental concerns run a distant second to the promised economic stimulus that the canal would deliver.

The public company was never meant to be a bureaucracy run by distant managers accountable to funds run by computers.

The ports of San Francisco and Oakland run a distant second and third to the Los Angeles-Long Beach complex, port officials said.

Dry and powdery inside, they run a distant second behind potato fries, no matter who makes them.

For most Nicaraguans, environmental concerns about the canal run a distant second to the economic stimulus that President Daniel Ortega has promised the canal would deliver.

In film and paper, Afga has run a distant third to Eastman Kodak and Fuji Film globally, and plays almost entirely in the low-margin, private-label film world in the United States.

By Elizabeth Drew The New Yorker, April 18 , 1988P. 129 Albert Gore, who has run a distant third at best, in every contest since Mar.