Sentence examples for well then lost from inspiring English sources

We started well, then lost our shape a bit in the first half because of that: we thought we could play 'Roy of the Rovers' football and make the goal difference up.

I was up a break in the third, same at Indian Wells, then lost a run of games in both matches.

The cynical view of the 1990's is that it started well and then lost its promise.

"I was playing really well and then lost the pace of green for four or five holes and I let Raphael back in – I knew I was in for a game then and I had to refocus.

The event that gave the BE its name -- the 1982 California gubernatorial election, when Tom Bradley, the black mayor of Los Angeles, polled well and then lost resoundingly -- took place 26 years ago.

Many big projects start off well, but then lose momentum and spiral downward as skeptical stakeholders withdraw support.

We've all seen it over and over again: the company that has a truly wonderful product, or extraordinary customer support, or provides a needed service in a way no one else does, that grows dramatically (usually based on the power of what it does well) and then loses its uniqueness on the altar of scalability.

Last week he developed brain swelling as a consequence of his failing liver, as well as pneumonia, and then lost consciousness.

The books sold well for several years, then lost popularity as the "Gossip Girl" wave flooded the kids' market with shopping-and-hooking-up novels.

Looking at this graph, you might think that Nokia's leadership did well for a while, then lost its way.

The Democrats' own exit polling showed them well ahead in counties they then lost.