How To Use Finalist In A Sentence
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These are books that juries have selected as finalists for the ultimate Pulitzer Prize.
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Here, we speak to last year's winner and five regional finalists.
The Sun
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Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players.
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The ten finalists were drawn randomly from a bingo machine and each one made their way up to the stage where they picked a key.
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Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a look at that dubious aphorist, E.M. Cioran.
An Inquirer trifecta ...
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In fact, for the first time in many years, none of the men's semi-finalists was a former or the current National champion.
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Semifinalists will be required to submit copies of their entire dissertation for the final selection process.
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He is a finalist for the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player.
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First questions came from former Olympic champion and defeated finalist - US swimmer Janet Evans.
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She will almost certainly make England's team for Manchester 2002 and is a potential finalist.
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Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan ("The Best of It") and prize-winning poet-translator Anne Carson ("Nox") were poetry finalists, along with Kathleen Graber's "The Eternal City," Terrance Hayes' "Lighthead" and C.D.
Nominees Revealed For Prestigious Book Awards
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You may take a super snap like the ten finalists in our 5,000 photographic competition - see below.
The Sun
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The regional finalists put on an afternoon tea to die for.
The Sun
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Getting a nomination for a World Technology Award was overwhelming, and to have been designated a finalist is abundantly above all I could have asked for.
Tiny Projector Enters the Big Show | Impact Lab
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But he has stiff competition from the other two finalists.
The Sun
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The 2002 Wimbledon finalist has yet to drop a set in four matches.
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No, he didn't win it, but check out his record: four times a semifinalist, four times a quarter-finalist.
Times, Sunday Times
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They'll be testing your putting skills in 160 venues, with 10 lucky semi finalists going forward to the final in June to play a shot for
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Finalists benefit from the publicity they receive and from the networking opportunities that arise in the course of the year long programme.
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In the women's race, Beijing Olympic finalist Jeanette Kwakye took the title ahead of world and European junior champion Jodie Williams, with Asha Philip, the top-ranked Briton before this weekend, disqualified from the semi-finals for a false start.
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Their names did not figure in the list of finalists.
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Could the elder of the finalists conjure yet more magic?
Times, Sunday Times
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Thoroughly deserving defeat, the beaten finalists for the past three years will not be able to go one better this time around.
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The winner of the world championship will walk away with 250,000, slightly more than a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most World Cups have an oddball semi-finalist and Ukraine have the potential to be this year's.
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The three will include both finalists and the winner of the qualifying final.
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Number eight seed Guillermo Coria upset Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian to reach the semi-finals.
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Danny Allen, last year's event winner, was the lone semifinalist.
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She is a former world number three tennis player, French Open champion and Wimbledon semi-finalist.
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A consoling fact for the loser, though potentially ominous for the winner, is that defeated finalists in the past – including JLS and One Direction, both chart-topping acts – have often done better than some who took the Cowell crown; Leon Jackson and Steve Brookstein spring to mind.
TV review: The X Factor final
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Oliver Wilson, a third-year New College Law finalist, has received a decanal summons to explain why he sent what university regulations classify as an ‘abusive email’.
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Three finalists were on campus this week to interview for the director of intercollegiate athletics position, following a two-month search process.
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A spokeswoman for St Catz said that, since the foundation of the college, first years and finalists have lived on the same staircase, noting that freshers also take examinations.
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At first I thought it was a lack of talent, but I remember thinking that this group of finalists were much better than last year's dreck.
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Decades later, the revivified gator struck a chord with many of the contest's readers, who voted Boris's strip, "Hoxwinder Hall," as one of the top-five finalists.
'NEXT GREAT CARTOONIST': Finalist launches 'Hoxwinder Hall' webcomic
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In a Canadian university, a male and a female candidate were finalists for a tenurable position in philosophy.
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The finalists adjust and readjust their goggles; they swing their arms in fast circles and jump explosively upward.
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They are semi-finalists for the fourth year in succession.
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Joanna Robson, head of entrepreneurial growth markets for Ernst and Young, said she was not surprised go-getters from the Yorkshire region represented more than 40 per cent of the regional finalists.
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He is looking forward to meeting all the finalists and to mentoring one of the winners.
Times, Sunday Times
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A picture framer who set up his own business in Broadway has been named a finalist in a national competition for the third year running.
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He deserves to be a finalist but it is doubtful that he will savour the experience on the other side of the net from Nadal.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has twice been a quarter-finalist.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he admits he has quickly become disillusioned with the amateur game after rising from novice to world championship quarter-finalist in a whirlwind 16 months.
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A Rhodes Scholarship finalist, she will pursue a Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies at Berkeley.
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The names of the two other semi-finalists were not decided until the final match in the round robin series.
ITF World of Tennis
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The former team proposed the most overtly environmental design of any of the finalists.
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A quick run through of the finalists may help to find the winner although there are so many imponderables about this decider that it is going to be a tricky task.
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The Butkus Award semi-finalist is regarded as one of the premier defenders in college football ...
USATODAY.com
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She entered her project in the 2000 Intel Science Talent Search and was a finalist.
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I'd wager that if most of America had known the first finalist wouldn't even be selected until the second half, very few would have tuned in for the fluff.
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The losing semi-finalists play off for the bronze medal.
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The next round was on Saturday forenoon in which there were group discussions and personal interview for the semi-finalists.
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For Pennetta, a quarter-finalist at Flushing Meadows in 2008 and 2009 who is seeded 26th, it was a moment to savor as she celebrated her victory on a baking hot day at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Sharapova exits, Murray survives test at U.S. Open
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The other finalists, should England make it to the World Cup will be either Spain or Germany.
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Neither finalist is comfortable extolling his own virtues but both are clear on why there is an elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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All entries will go forward to a judging panel who will select six finalists.
The Sun
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Twelve extremely good-looking, smooth young men have been picked as finalists.
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Karen, the Munster regional finalist, won out with her honeyed lamb noisettes, roast root vegetables and rosemary roast potatoes followed by sticky toffee pudding with caramel sauce.
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He plays a qualifier in the first round but must then get past two-time semi-finalist Todd Martin.
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Thankfully things got better as the worst of the finalists were gradually sent packing.
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I found the choice of finalists and the final placings surprising personally, but there were compensations.
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If that wasn't enough to curdle any milk, the five selected finalists were then required to prepare a gourmet luncheon for 100 assembled guests from the media and restaurant industries.
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For example, the preceding leg of the circuit in Mumbai saw two unseeded finalists.
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The element of luck was also at play with one of the quarter finalists making a wild guess on the number of flowers that goes on to make a kilogram of Saffron.
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Neither finalist is comfortable extolling his own virtues but both are clear on why there is an elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each jury panel selected three finalists, then composed a short blurb about each.
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San Francisco literati are still talking about an incident a couple of years ago when upstart author Stephen Elliott (New York Literary Lion finalist and author of "The Adderall Diaries") threw a full glass of beer on Zyzzyva magazine founder and editor, the estimable Howard Junker, after he said into the microphone with calm conviction: "Stephen Elliott has no literary merit whatsoever.
Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport
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If it's any comfort to the beaten finalists it is that they lost to a moment of panache.
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It was the Swede's 24th goal in 72 internationals but after that the 1994 semi-finalists lost their early momentum.
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Later that day he had another engagement, where he was going to plant a tree in the school of another finalist in the competition.
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But he has stiff competition from the other two finalists.
The Sun
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After reviewing scores of nominations, our panel of judges selected two finalists in each of five categories.
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In the naval sector Oto Melara hopes to win a contract for the supply of its naval guns, while Wass is a finalist for a contract concerning the delivery of 100 heavy torpedoes.
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Mya and Dmitry received a perfect 30 out of 30 score for their initial paso doble dance and then received an additional 30 points during the performance show's "megamix" round, which required all six finalists to perform a joint routine and compete for first, second and third place rankings that represented 30-point, 28-point and 26-point scores respectively.
Reality TV World: Reality TV News
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Networking: Finalist companies will present their business to a notorious Jury during the Gate2Growth Summit in Berlin on 13 December 2005, 300 attendants from the Industry
September 2005
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The order in which the finalists spin the wheel and perform will be chosen by TODAY at random and that order shall be binding on all the finalists.
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The group will then be narrowed down to 12 finalists chosen in regional competitions held at local libraries.
Times, Sunday Times
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All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade.
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That would make Obama's early intervention in the race touchier, pitting the first African American president against the city's black community - if Emanuel was also a finalist.
In Chicago, it's not Rahm's for the asking
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It was bound to an all Yorkshire affair because the other two semi-finalists were also native sons.
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The 22-year-old has long since moved on from Project 45 – his plan to eclipse the career-best ranking of Shuzo Matsuoka, the Wimbledon quarter-finalist who retired in 1996 – rising to 24th in the world in November.
Australian Open 2012: Ivan Lendl to help Andy Murray take the next step
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Each of the finalists in the dance competition won a pair of cinema tickets and a goody bag.
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Then the fourth-grader defeated three other finalists in his age group.
Houston Chronicle
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Though the World Fantasy Award is a juried award, two finalists in each category are chosen by the popular vote of the attendees of the World Fantasy Convention.
John Joseph Adams » 2010 » June
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I grumble as we make our way outside the hall where young women were clucking around, fixing every semi-finalist model's hair, make-up, dress etc.
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Neither finalist is comfortable extolling his own virtues but both are clear on why there is an elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was far from the preserve of the independently educated - and two finalists go to state schools.
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The former young driver of the year finalist still has an outside chance of the Irish title this season and will be pushing hard to continue his winning ways on home soil.
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But the fuming quarter-finalist refused and was disqualified.
The Sun
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The 48 finalists will arrive along with 15 other people including national coaches and chaperones in June next year.
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All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade.
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All ten finalists were presented with a specially engraved Arabic coffee pot.
The Sun
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Taconic, which was a finalist in the bidding, has filed a lawsuit in New York state court against the seller, Mountbatten Equities, alleging that the firm "cynically and duplicitously" used Taconic as a "stalking horse" bidder to increase the sale price.
Condo Complex Sparks a Battle
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Ninth seed Stosur, a quarter-finalist in New York last year, had chances to close out a hard-fought tussle in the second set, but Petrova, the 24th seed, saved two match points and won the tiebreak 7-5 to force a third set.
Stosur beats Petrova in record match
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Both the US and beaten World Cup finalists China are among the eight teams invited to play in the event, which includes hosts Australia and Brazil.
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However, the stress and strain of playing in such a demanding tournament could be the deciding factor between the two finalists.
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She was a semi-finalist in the singles at the world championships of 1952 and 1953 and a quarter-finalist in 1955.
Times, Sunday Times
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The three will include both finalists and the winner of the qualifying final.
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IT'S crunch time for the finalists in this year's Tipstar competition.
The Sun
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After reviewing scores of nominations, our panel of judges selected two finalists in each of five categories.
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The 31-year-old, a finalist in 2003, has not played a competitive match since pulling out of the US Open in August last year after being diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an auto-immune disease.
Venus Williams pulls out of Australian Open for health reasons
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He was afforded a bit of leeway as a World Cup semi-finalist, as the normal length of service is two years.
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There is no Robot Unicorn Attack in this episode: games. adultswim.com RADAR: MONACO FIRST LOOK Monaco is getting a lot of attention its an IGF finalist and was recently featured on Kotaku.
Gas gain
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Twelve extremely good-looking, smooth young men have been picked as finalists.
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But he has stiff competition from the other two finalists.
The Sun
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Murray developed her skills as a youth playing in suburban Washington D.C., went on to star collegiately at Seton Hall University, and was a finalist in 1999 for both the Hermann Trophy and the Missouri Athletic Club Award.
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Our judges have picked six finalists from hundreds of worthy entries.
The Sun
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An outside panel of judges then will select 10 finalists as gold medalists.
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He takes man and dog to a local show where, to his delight, they win the breed class and are finalists in Best In Show.
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One history finalist said, ‘We have to put up with University's traditions, wearing subfusc and the like, but they're not prepared to put up with ours.’
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The judges whittled down the entries to nine finalists, and the winner was then chosen by an online vote.
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Stevens' vision caught their collective eye, and he was named a semi-finalist in July.
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He deserves to be a finalist but it is doubtful that he will savour the experience on the other side of the net from Nadal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two sat directly next to each other in courtside chairs, not on opposing sides of the net like other finalists do, while waiting for the trophy presentation to begin.
USATODAY.com - When winning doesn't feel right
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Last season's beaten Grand Finalists opened with a 26-10 defeat at Hull KR.
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The Strathclyde pair were finalists in the Observer International Mace debating competition last week.
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Mark Allen , a semi-finalist here two years ago and a quarter-finalist last year, produced a remarkable recovery from three down with four to play to beat Matthew Stevens 10-9 and advance to the last 16 of the World Championship.
World Snooker Championship 2011: John Higgins eases into century mode
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To each produce an amazing dish for some of the show's previous winners and finalists.
The Sun
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All ten finalists were presented with a specially engraved Arabic coffee pot.
The Sun
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The judge awarded both finalists equal points.
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Unbeknownst to our finalist, four of these bullets are blanks.
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Curiously, all of the women finalists in this event chose to wear classic swimsuits.
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He helped me judge the two finalists before the winner cooked for a genuine celebrity dinner party in my house.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems cruel to make the losing semi-finalists play-off for the faded glory of being crowned the third best team in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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HM is the hard ladder — hard to get on and hard to climb — where semi and finalist just seem to be the last few rungs.
Writers of the Future Q4 « A Little Imagination
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This score brought the beaten county finalists to within five points of Harps.
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While it is just about still possible to end up with two well-matched finalists with no other commitments, it is much more likely that one or both will have priorities elsewhere.
Tarnished FA Cup needs a Manchester derby's drama | Paul Wilson
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His victory is the result of two weeks of frenzied phone and online voting after we whittled down ten finalists from more than 25,000 entries.
The Sun
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Our ten grand prize finalists and their guests were treated to a VIP day at the races, each excited by the fact that they were in with a one in ten chance of winning a sleek new car.
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They were cut down in 106 local heats to ten finalists.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nominations were made by their teachers and the finalists will be judged by the trustees of the fund.
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But it was not until the last few weeks that McCain winnowed his list to five or six finalists.
August « 2008 « Niqnaq
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In a Canadian university, a male and a female candidate were finalists for a tenurable position in philosophy.
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Entrants who are selected as regional finalists will be notified by letter and by telephone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten semi-finalists will be announced on the day of the event and will be judged based in three categories: interview, bodysuits and evening dress.
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Five ‘semi-finalists’ were chosen to move into the second round of the demolition derby.
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Here are the finalists and their odds - plus there will be a wild-card entry picked from acts already voted off.
The Sun
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They are previous winners and finalists.
The Sun
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The board threw out the bids from the three finalists, including Heritage, and restarted the process.
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He is one of ten finalists, and the only British one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jim applied for the job, took a test, and was one of four finalists who were flown out for an interview with Bill.
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It is all very well home-grown managers moaning when heavyweight clubs import multilingual coaching nous but how many would be prepared to follow in the footprints of Europa League finalists Fulham's much-travelled Roy Hodgson and hone hitherto underdeveloped skills in sometimes testing, technically demanding, overseas habitats?
Twente's Steve McClaren proves value of leaping into the unknown
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The competition is still wide open as the second group of eight semi-finalists step out onto the stage to be judged.
The Sun
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The semifinalists fought back gallantly to beat the opposition 3-2.
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The Rhodes scholar finalist is accustomed to setting his goals high and meeting them.
USATODAY.com - Mining small schools for draft gems
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The judge awarded both finalists equal points.
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The Cup finalists of 1934 promoted brands of trousers, shoe-polish, and Shredded Wheat.
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It doesn't matter that this year's finalists are a pale imitation of the class of '03.
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Undrafted out of high school, the two-time Big 12 player of year and Golden Spikes Award finalist is hitting .382 with 18 home runs and 62 RBI for the Huskers.
USATODAY.com - Prep star Upton tops with D'backs
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The dress and design have been given the thumbs up by a panel of judges in the competition and is the only Eastern Cape finalist.
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CUBE, to 20 AugRobert ClarkOld traditions entwine with present-day concerns in work by the 10 finalists for the 2011 Jameel Prize.
This week's new exhibitions
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The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book is the first and so far only collection of those captionless comics at the back of the New Yorker magazine, each printed with the three “finalist” options and the winner that appeared in sequential issues of the magazine.
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He would go on to win two grand-slam titles - the US and French Opens - and be a Wimbledon finalist on two occasions.
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Cher, in the news last week with a Jay-Z deal, the most googled finalist ever, most talked about, bitched about.
So girls are not all as nice as pie. And your point is? | Barbara Ellen
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Computer renderings for one of three announced finalists -- Karsan, a Turkish company the other two are Ford and Nissan -- show extra foldaway seats and what Karsan is calling a "panoramic glass roof.
Tony Hiss: The Taxi of Tomorrow
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Our judges have whittled down thousands of entries to 40 finalists.
The Sun
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It is the second successive year in which the finalists have met in the next campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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The losing semi-finalists play off for the bronze medal.
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I could just about see sending a stenographed form letter to the twelve X-Factor finalists, what with the lotofgoodworkforcharity.
No Rock And Roll Fun
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It included four Under-21 debutants and the fact they still beat a fellow finalist shows their strength in depth.
The Sun
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As the three finalists walk before the cameras and packed audience there is no clapping or cheering.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was afforded a bit of leeway as a World Cup semi-finalist, as the normal length of service is two years.
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They sifted through more than 4,000 poems before drawing up a shortlist of the 12 finalists.
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Best in Hound Group finalists: It looks like we have the beagle, the long-haired dachshund and wire-haired, the Norwegian elkhound, the Rhodesian ridgeback, and the whippet...
Westminster Dog Show 2012—as it happened
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They also included some krumping in their routine which made their street dance performance the most well-rounded among the four finalists.
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The judge awarded both finalists equal points.
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I suppose the look would be epitomised by the finalist who emerges from a particularly disastrous exam to be pelted with eggs and glitter by an over-zealous congratulatory crowd.
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The 40 finalists were divided into teams and they were given various challenges.
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Times of India - NEW DELHI: 'Jai ho', 'cuddies' and 'slumdog' are among the 73 other finalists from across the globe to become the millionth English word. ...
A new species called "Slumdog"
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Judging will take place in December with the winner selected from four finalists at a special awards dinner early in 1993.
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Britain's Alex Bogdanovic, a beaten semi-finalist in last year's Surbiton Trophy, has struck a rich vein of form in recent weeks.
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Before Patti Smith earned the name the godmother of punk, she was - well, that's the subject of her memoir, "Just Kids," which is a National Book Award Finalist and is out next week in paperback.
Patti Smith And Robert Mapplethorpe: Kindred Spirits
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What really irks me about the finalists of the poster contest is this entry.
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Wake Forest, the other finalist in the players' recruitment, followed the same approach.
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Then in January, Ramsey was flown to Toronto, along with other finalists, for a final round of interviews at the Bank of Montreal's Institute for Learning.
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A nationwide trawl of the country's aspiring male and female models was combed down to a shortlist of 70 potential supermodels and Sarah is one of 25 finalists chosen from that group.
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Tudor felt that being the lightest of the four finalists was more of a disadvantage if anything, given the gusty off-shore wind that was blowing.
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The judges awarded both finalists equal points.
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GOOD luck to today's six Tipstar finalists.
The Sun
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Their names did not figure in the list of finalists.
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The two finalists are as different as pastrami and cornbread.
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Panathinaikos are a team with considerable Champions League experience, having been semi-finalists and quarter-finalists in the last decade.
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Twenty-five contestants entered and the field was narrowed to five finalists.
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Mr Shepherd has been a Student of the Year finalist for the past three years,
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It was the Swede's 24th goal in 72 internationals but after that the 1994 semi-finalists lost their early momentum.
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The contest now hots up and votes are vital over the next few weeks as the contestants are whittled down to just two finalists.
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They eventually will begin paring down their list to a second group of finalists and conduct a second round of interviews, Jeff Wilpon, the franchise's chief operating officer, said in a conference call.
Giants' Punter Dodge May Have to Kick Off
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The talk should have been of his tremendous fight back, a late rally that saw last year's beaten finalist's escape to victory over a brave East Kerry side.
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More and more, this team looks capable of becoming a conference finalist.
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Such as winning here when six of the finalists had quicker personal best times than his.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luminette® Modern Draperies Dual Panel, a unique combination of drapery and sheer fabrics on one operating headrail, was also named one of 408 finalists.
Paramus Post
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The four finalists in that week's event will not bowl the pro-ams, but will be available to meet fans and sign autographs.
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They are full of Champions League winners and finalists.
The Sun
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Cuba, which won the League title in 1998 and bagged five silvers and two bronzes in the 90s, and Poland were the surprise finalists in this edition.
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But no one remembers semi-finalists or losing finalists.
The Sun
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A panel of judges is now selecting the finalists.
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He finished last season as a beaten Grand Finalist with Leigh who missed the opportunity to go in Super League.
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The meeting itself is just a chance for all who wish to hear and cross-question the three finalists: an eve-of-poll hustings.
It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...
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There was little doubt that this was the hardest set of puzzles any of the 24 finalists had attempted.
Times, Sunday Times