Sentence examples for substantial prizes from inspiring English sources

Teams compete against others in their city or region for substantial prizes: $10,000 for the team that loses the highest percentage of body weight.

These athletes earned substantial prizes for winning at many other preliminary festivals, and, although the only prize at Olympia was a wreath or garland, an Olympic champion also received widespread adulation and often lavish benefits from his home city.

And while it has become a cliché to criticise much of modern-day sport as dictated by big business, 'twas ever thus, according to Mike Cronin; the term "athlete" derives a Greek word meaning "someone who competes for reward" and the substantial prizes on offer at the Games of Ancient Greece led to regular cheating.

The Lomonosov ridge could contain several billion barrels of oil equivalent, a substantial prize.

With 400 million Internet users and growing, their own market is a substantial prize.

Substantial prize money attracted a selection of East African elite runners, including the returning 2012 champions Abebe Dinkesa and Etenesh Diro.

On the way, he invited me to join a contest he was sponsoring, with a substantial prize for the person who came up with the best substitute for the word "sunset".

The winner of the first division would be Uefa's Nations League champion and win a substantial prize, with the bottom team in each division being relegated in favour of the winner of the tier below.

Having thus proved his ability to get on and off a freighter at a heavily secured port without drawing scrutiny, prosecutors said, the man was then trusted by drug lords in Panama to pick up a more substantial prize: several dozen one-kilogram packages of Colombian cocaine.

Oil & Gas UK communications director Trisha O'Reilly said: "There is a substantial prize still to be won, with up to 24 billion barrels of oil and gas to recover.

Paul Rawnsley, director of the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: "In financial terms, the Championship play-off final offers the winning club the most substantial prize in world football.