Sentences with phrase «close on pace»

We were kind of struggling the whole race... a little bit like qualifying — very close on pace but very far in position.

With qualifying being such a close run thing, the race should be an absolute corker with all three top teams seemingly very close on pace.

This is, in part, due to the drivers involved who are able to battle so well but also the teams themselves, who have created brilliant spaceship - like machines that make for great racing and are (mostly) close on pace.

We are closer on pace but I'm not sure we are going to have enough outright speed.

Not exact matches

As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.

Datto generated close to $ 100 million in revenue in 2014 and is on pace to do «way over $ 100 million this year,» McChord says.

European markets closed higher on Thursday, with Italy setting the pace amid a significant upward revision in first - quarter economic growth.

«The one thing that's kind of holding the market back a bit is this impending growth fear and is the Fed making a mistake,» he said on «Closing Bell,» referring to the pace of the central bank's rate hikes.

If the economy were to grow at the pace I discussed earlier, this would likely translate into sufficient job gains to continue to remove any remaining slack in the labor market — which, by my assessment, is already operating quite close to a level that is consistent with what is achievable on a sustainable basis.

As 2016 closes, I'm proud ashamed to say that we're on pace to actually beat that amount, with just north of $ 5,100 in cash and travel year - to - date.

CVS said Wednesday that its proposed $ 69 billion acquisition of Hartford - based health insurer Aetna is on pace to close in the second half of this year.

However, with oil recently closer to the $ 45 - per - barrel level, these companies are on pace to outspend cash flow this year.

The DOW and NASDAQ are on pace to post a loss for the week overall after having two weeks of weekly gains, while the S&P 500 is sitting relatively unchanged for the week, although it is desperately close to posting a weekly loss as well.

Ahead of Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, Facebook has hired a team from the law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants to coach him on questions lawmakers may ask, and on how to pace his answers and react if interrupted, according to people close to the preparations, who would speak only anonymously because the sessions were private.

After an elegant gloss of his own on John 3, the Scripture that inspired Vaughan, Hill conducts a well - paced close analysis of Vaughan's rhymes, leaving no doubt that the poet quite literally believed «his own words must be measured against, must chime faithfully with, the received words of Scripture.»

This was because Bottas was seemingly struggling to close on the Ferraris and Hamilton had better pace at the time, but Hamilton promised that if he couldn't get through, he'd give the spot back to his team - mate.

- walcott is only good to come on when the opposing team is about to start attacking us (when we are a few goals up) for his pace on the counter - having gabriel replace BFG makes arsenal compress the play and play better close intricate passes and take opposing teams apart (he is a welcomed addition)

They were cool, calm and collected in the game's closing moments and were able to secure a victory that kept them on pace with the other top teams in the Standings who all drew victories in Week 5.

Not only did he lose 10 months of his career to that injury, but he's never gotten back his full open - field pace or ability to put on sudden bursts of acceleration in close quarters.

As the session drew to a close it was Power who found the pace to put it on provisional pole, but at the last second Canadian rookie Wickens shot to the top of the timesheets to snatch P1 by just 0.07 seconds.

Was screaming at Wenger to bring on Walcott as only pace was going to unsettle them, and make up for our appalling defence and closing down.

I think we took them a little bit by surprise and we played at a high pace from the start and closed down well early on.

It's not on the same pace as City / United but that's close to impossible for most clubs.

When Bellerin first came into the side he not only defended well but was always so dangerous going forward.His pace and ability to go outside his marker gave us an attacking outlet that allowed us to play without a recognised right sided attacker which coincided with Walcott getting less and less game time.We all thought this boy was going to turn into someone very special and so obviously did the management who apparently renewed his contract on a reputed # 100k per week.What have we seen since then?A player that seems as indecisive and under coached as the rest of the defenders at the club.A player that has rarely delivered a performance that reflected his initial early form.A player whose body language seems to display his displeasure at being at our club when Barcelona reputedly offered # 40m for him in the close season.

In the closing hours a Ukyo Katayama's GT - One was homing in on the leading BMW at a rapid pace when he suffered a puncture, ending Toyota's chances of victory.

Ferrari's qualifying pace may make the race look like a foregone conclusion, but the top four on the grid will actually start the race on the slower, more durable soft tyre, on which the pace this weekend has looked much closer.

Look at Mata, he is amazing, but now that football has moved on, it's to do with pace, fight, tracking back, closing down etc..

This has been the closest round of the fight so far and could go either way, but we'll give it to Mayweather based on pace and aggressiveness.

To that point, Kirscher has been hunting for an autograph for about an hour and a half without any success, though he has been keeping close tabs on Orlando Pace and Ryan Leaf, both of whom are bouncing from radio interview to radio interview within Radio Row's tightly cordoned perimeter and, frustratingly, aren't showing any sign of wrapping up.

I've stated before on this forum that I am from the United States and I follow the sports here as well, particularly basketball, which is the closest game to football that we have in terms of fluidity and the combination of stamina, pace, and power.

The league has yried that but liverpool even us with coqueluin in and liverpool won pace and pressure and if we add pass on flanks wilshere can be a release valve with his quick feet and first 10 yards of pace a lay off to ozil for a quality ball and pace will close them down and stretch them out

He quickly proved the doubters wrong though and was soon close to the pace of teammate Michael Schumacher, and he eventually broke though at the Turkish Grand Prix when he took his first pol position and went on to win the race.

simple point: if runners up plus fa cup was enough to close the discussion on wenger sticking around... fine i could live with that... does nt it follows that 4th place and no fa cup would be enough to force him out... qed... that leaves 3rd place with or without cup and 4th pace with cup to debate whether he deserves to stay on or not... 3rd place with a cup would be enough for me (just) the other two and he should do the decent thing and resign

Real Madrid players were very direct in their playing against Wolfsburg as they relied on their pace and physical man power to break through Wolfsburg's defenses which was blocked as Wolfsburg were able to resist Real's physicality playing by close marking them as they closed their offensive play down.

Koke was on hand to play the one - two with Correa, who again showed his natural talent in both pace and close control.

The victory had been so close and then in the pace of a few minutes, Kane had turned everything on its head.

The 2014 - 2015 campaign has been less prolific for the winger, but he appears on pace to come close to matching the numbers from his introductory season.

Wenger's men face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday as they look to close the gap on the Premier League's early pace - setters.

Juventus pushed forward when they were presented opportunities, but refused to force pace in a commanding lead, closing out the game on a high note.

Our no. 9 was away and went straight for goal at pace but although his shot, one - on - one with Pope, did not want for power, it lacked the vital accuracy as it whistled close to the post and into the advertising boards.

While managers such as Klopp, Pochettino, Conte and even Eddie Howe have built momentum based on intensity, pace, movement and pressing, West Ham fumble and stumble around haphazardly hoping that they might eventually get a free kick close enough to goal.

In what was closer to something expected of one of Allardyce's teams, the rejuvenated Townsend's pace and footwork created space on the left wing to cross to Benteke and the striker leapt highest, over Yohan Benalouane, to head in towards the back post.

Ramos also spearheaded the Mayor's popular town halls (which got held at a much livelier pace as de Blasio closed in on re-election this year), and City Hall in Your Borough which brings the administration to hold court in one of the five boroughs for a full week.

We are keeping a close eye on the pace of the US recovery, the continuing Eurozone crisis and the impact of efforts to stimulate the Chinese economy on the markets that we serve.

Some journalists saw him as a slightly sinister, furtive, cold figure, always pacing the corridors while on his mobile phone, talking almost daily to his close friend George Galloway, whom he addressed as «chief».

The city is closing on 52,000 affordable housing units in order to keep on pace with the mayor's housing plan.

Her next filing, due mid-August, will shed light on whether she has been able to pick up the fundraising pace and how close she is to qualifying for matching funds.

As Close of Oxford points out, the sun's leisurely pace depends on the weak force being weak, and it is only weak because the W bosons that transmit it are massive.

Once students get a feel for this fast - paced breath, with the belly swelling on the inhalation and pressing back in toward the spine on the exhalation, Khalsa instructs them to close the mouth and continue this breath through the nose.

Yet you can't deny this type of work also has a high demand on the aerobic system considering we would travel the mile mark around a 5:30 pace — very close to our LT pace.