Sentence examples for was lost by a from inspiring English sources

The first was lost by a wide margin, the second by a hair's breadth.

Back in 1923, the farm was lost by a chap called Tankerville.

It had always been a BN stronghold but was lost by a narrow margin in the electoral meltdown of 2008.

This World Series was lost by a handful of Yankee mistakes, most of which were either not visible or not really understandable to television watchers.

A referendum on independence in 1995 was lost by a margin as thin as a maple leaf, with 49.4% voting in favour.

The proposals included introducing an extra weekday public holiday whenever Liberation Day falls on a weekend in the future - this plan was lost by a drawn vote of 20-20.

All out for 169, the match was lost by an innings and 74.

NEW YORK - Time Warner Inc. on Monday said data on 600,000 current and former employees stored on computer back-up tapes was lost by an outside storage company, which the U.S. Secret Service is now investigating.

The vote for women bishops was lost by an excruciatingly small margin.

Fernandes captained British Guiana in both of their matches against the MCC, each of which was lost by an innings.

However, the fourth Test was lost by an innings as Ironmonger again caused difficulties for the West Indies batsmen.