ON A leafy hill-top overlooking the northern Nigerian town of Minna stand two splendid back-to-back mansions.
With 10 minutes left a splendid back-flick by [Wayne] Rooney set up [Carlos] Tevez to score but the last word went to Mariano Gonzalez".
Garcia caps a splendid back nine with another par.
To make a point: If you're in the market for a nifty-handling sports sedan, want all-weather traction, a silky highway ride and a splendid back-roads untwister, you can't go wrong with the A4, but we think the 1.8T with quattro ought to be on your radar as well.
In some places, he invented splendid back-translations -- putting Hofstadter's English translations of a poem by Marot into French, for example, to quite special and intriguing effect.
The problem with that thought, however, is that Indianapolis had Marshall Faulk, the Rams' splendid running back, for five seasons and he never reached the pinnacle of his game as he has under Martz.
It was splendid to welcome back to the stage seven of the company's former luminaries -- Lupe Serrano, Martine van Hamel, Nina Ananiashvili, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Natalia Makarova and Frederic Franklin -- but much more could have been made of their historical significance.
How splendid to be back on board, to reel in the mighty balance of the prairies, then all the lakes and forests, another three days and half a huge nation still left to rattle steadily through.
Among the endless reinterpretations of the T-shirt, perhaps none has inspired as much controversy as the lean, ribbed tank top that has become known as the "wife beater". Splendid is taking back the term.
What's the point of a UK back in splendid isolation when its preoccupations are Chinese, Asian and Pakistani?
At last Suurbier and Krol, who have had such a splendid tournament as attacking backs, were outmanoeuvred by players of superior pace and wit.
