Sentence examples for thin lead over from inspiring English sources

Kurt Dumond's dog, Erek, held a thin lead over the rest of the field, with Rothschild's Danz in fifth place.

Respondents gave Denzel Washington a thin lead over Kevin Spacey for Best Actor and Hilary Swank a wider lead over Annette Bening for Best Actress.

Explosions kill scores of people in Syrian coastal cities Europe could be about to elect its first overtly far-right leader in modern times – the Freedom party candidate Norbert Hofer holds a thin lead over a former Green party rival.

In the final 2008 Rocky Mountain News poll before the Heisman votes were announced, McCoy moved to the top of the list, but had a very thin lead over Sam Bradford and Tim Tebow, who were in second and third place, respectively.

On all three measures – the Euros, the locals and the opinion polls – the party now enjoys only a wafer-thin lead over the Conservatives.

The Liberal Democrats have sunk to a new low of just 5% in the latest Opinium/Observer poll which gives Labour a wafer-thin lead over the Tories with less than 100 days to go until the general election.

Austria's political future is on a knife-edge, with the candidate bidding to be the European Union's first far-right president holding a wafer-thin lead over his rival.

The Freedom party's wafer-thin lead over the People's party of just 415 out of more than 4m votes cast puts Mr Haider in a strong position to enter the next government.

But with the majority of votes counted, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has a razor-thin lead over his rival Keiko Fujimori, 41, the long-time frontrunner in Peru's election campaign.

Related: Kuczynski Still Has a Razor-Thin Lead Over Fujimori in Peru's Presidential Election.

A recent survey from Public Policy Polling found that if Stephen Colbert were on the Republican primary ballot in South Carolina, the Comedy Central star would hold a razor-thin lead over Huntsman.