Sentence examples for slipped far behind from inspiring English sources

After the Daewoo Group collapsed in 1999, Daewoo Motor slipped far behind Hyundai, Korea's dominant carmaker.

Only after he slipped far behind Dr. Dean in the polls and joined him and Mr. Bush in opting out of public financing and the spending and contribution limits that come with it did Mr. Kerry begin to rebound.

Republicans said their hopes of capturing any state the Democrats won in 2004 appeared to be dwindling, though they said they held out hope for Pennsylvania, where Mr. McCain campaigned on Thursday but where he has recently slipped far behind Mr. Obama in some polls.

Polling in the run-up to Christmas suggested a modest bounce in Iowa after several months where he had slipped far behind Clinton, but the numbers look erratic and much depends on whether Sanders can persuade his young acolytes to turn out to the caucuses on 1 February.

Insularity has led it to slip far behind world developments in tactics".

But as HTC has struggled in the smartphone business, slipping far behind Samsung, it has moved to sell down its holdings in its partner.

Ours is the biggest, as well as the oldest, soccer organisationin the world and insularity has led it to slip far behind world developmentin tactics".

That has been Mrs. Bachmann's argument on the campaign trail in recent days as polls show her support ebbing further — not just slipping far behind Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas in the polls, but also losing ground to some other candidates.

"Day by day, I was slipping far behind my classmates.

Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government thought that too much regulation and a banking system presided over by a dozy old elite had seen London slip far behind New York as a financial center of the world.

The flight has increased as east European clubs, shorn of state support, with limited commercial possibilities and low broadcast revenues, have slipped so far behind the west financially the gap appears unbridgeable.