Sentence examples for than outstanding from inspiring English sources

"Modern Family," which endured a second consecutive season of being less than outstanding, still nabbed Outstanding Comedy Series (and could, sadly, win), but previous nominees Sofia Vergara, Eric Stonestreet and Ed O'Neill were shut out.

Her voice is fine, rather than outstanding.

Any school that was less than outstanding would be hereafter deemed to be coasting or failing.

Historically, the food here has been reliably hearty, rather than outstanding.

With a present value of more than £1 trillion, future pension payments to government employees alone will be greater than outstanding government-bond debt.

This has been a tournament characterised by collective displays rather than outstanding individuals but what star quality there has been has often come from Portugal.

Many students of science and engineering--even graduates of METU, where the language of instruction is English--bring less-than-outstanding English skills, Tanyildiz says.

Answering this question is a bit of a tightrope walk: While you don't want to be too honest ("I have a really hard time staying motivated"), you won't fool anyone by trying to spin an obviously good quality into a weakness ("I just can't bear to do less-than-outstanding work!").

A poor triple is not better than an outstanding double.

That's more than the outstanding value of United States Treasuries.

There were also 2.2m shares worth more than $170m "outstanding" as at 31 December.