Sentence examples for was a distant runner-up from inspiring English sources

Arizona's Brandon Webb, last year's winner, was a distant runner-up with 94 points.

NBC was a distant runner-up, garnering a season high for "Chuck" (7.6 million) and 7.8 million viewers for "Heroes".

CBS was a distant runner-up on the night with "Big Brother" at 8 (6.6 million) and a repeat of "CSI" at 9 (7.3 million).

Lion Heart was second in the Kentucky Derby and Rock Hard Ten was a distant runner-up behind Smarty Jones in the Preakness.

Yemen was a distant runner-up with 55 guns per 100 people, 40percentt less than the U.S. rate.

While Friendster has sputtered out in the U.S. (it's a distant runner-up to social networking groups like Facebook and MySpace, controlled by U.S. billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch, respectively) it is doing well in Asia, where 90% of its daily site traffic originates.

But a distant runner-up, surely, in this race.

Mr. McCain even played down his stunning upsets in the New Hampshire and Michigan primaries, calling himself "a distant runner-up".

Jacques Demy's graceful, candy-colored "Donkey Skin" (1970) is the distant runner-up, a movie that treats an exceptionally disturbing story with a disconcertingly light touch.

Labour held not just Sheffield but also the seat in the other Westminster by-election, Ogmore in Wales: Ukip was the distant runner up in both.

The distant runner-up is the M-16 and its descendants, which have been reproduced fewer than 10 million times.