• The 31-year-old dominated the competition and four of her efforts would have been good enough for victory.

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  • Overall, the 10 most-expensive airports for air travel include six "fortress" hubs dominated by one airline and four small cities without much fare competition.

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  • It is the fifth successive season they had made the last four of the FA Cup - equalling the competition record - and they have now made the final four years out of five.

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  • "We have quite a connection with Barcelona, having played them four times in European competition and winning each tie, " chairman Eddie Thompson told BBC Sport.

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  • The FA Cup is football's oldest cup competition, dating back to 1871, and Chelsea have a superb recent record in the competition, winning four of the last six stagings, including a 2-1 win over Liverpool at Wembley to lift the famous trophy last year.

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  • What is extraordinary is that it should have taken four full-length competition inquiries and more than 20 years to resolve the dispute.

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  • Stoke have never reached the FA Cup final in their 138-year history and have not appeared in the last four of the competition since 1972.

    BBC: Ryan Shawcross proud to lead out Stoke City at Wembley

  • The 36-strong British Olympic team will check out of the athletes' village in Athens on Wednesday and fly directly to Manchester for a four-day competition which starts the following day.

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  • He and the British dance group Sonique lead the competition with four nominations each.

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  • They caught four fish weighing 7.6 pounds and won the competition.

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  • The gradual liberalisation of the economy from 1991 helped to motivate change, but the main catalysts were a slump in demand four years ago, competition from China, and the threat of markets being opened up by the World Trade Organisation.

    ECONOMIST: Manufacturing in India

  • The home side rarely threatened after being reduced to 10 men and Inter comfortably held on to reach the last four of the competition for the first time since 2003.

    CNN: Sneijder free-kick puts Inter in semis

  • Swimming is one of four sports in the Manchester competition with athletics, cycling and wheelchair basketball also taking place.

    BBC: Simmonds heads GB swimming team

  • Siemens' mobile phone business ranks in the world's top four, but it has been struggling with price cuts and competition from Asian manufacturers.

    BBC: Siemens cuts 2,300 jobs

  • The Lions are comprised of the best players from the four home unions of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and competition for places in the squad is fierce as club and country loyalties are put aside.

    CNN: Who are the British Lions?

  • And four years ago, we started Race to the Top - a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, all for about 1% of what we spend on education each year.

    BBC: State of the Union: Obama pledges to reignite economy

  • Team Syntax, the only team to be from a community college in the competition, was comprised of a 21 year old and four gentlemen over the age of 40 who strove to challenge the stigma that a junior college meant junior ideas.

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  • Doing it will not be easy, because the top chaebol remain powerful (the four biggest account for a third of domestic output) and because competition will accelerate bankruptcies and lay-offs, bringing large-scale unemployment to the country for the first time in 20 years.

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  • Four year ago, Ira, during the first Mars Scout competition, we were one of the four finalists, and eventually NASA selected Phoenix.

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  • In times past the two countries formed part of the old Yugoslavia, who reached the last four of the competition in 1988, the following year, and 1991.

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  • And four years ago, we started Race to the Top -- a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, all for about 1 percent of what we spend on education each year.

    WHITEHOUSE: State of the Union 2013

  • Arnhem, where Friday's draw was held, is one of the competition's four venues, along with Heerenveen, Groningen and Nijmegen.

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  • It will be the first major competition in Pakistan since a four-nation tournament in 1997 and the World Cup the year before.

    BBC: Champions Trophy gets all-clear

  • Australia ended the 1998 Commonwealth Games with the top medal haul, finishing with 80, and as the Games in Kuala Lumpur closed, the athletes and fans of the Commonwealth looked forward to the next competition in Manchester in four years.

    BBC: European and Commonwealth gold

  • Praised for introducing Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff to a younger generation when he became well-known, Cliburn also helped nurture the careers of younger musicians through the Van Cliburn International Music Competition, which was set up in 1962 and occurs once every four years.

    BBC: Bush remembers Van Cliburn at memorial

  • Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland have expressed an interest in joining England, Italy, Holland and Belgium in the competition, which would be played in two groups of four with a one-off final in the spring of 2009 and play-off matches for the other positions.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Non League | Euro Trophy event to be expanded

  • The losing bonus point was the Welsh side's first in this season's cup and their competition is all but over, but Wasps will be seeking a four-try victory in next week's reverse fixture at Adams Park to make up their two-point deficit on Toulouse in the group.

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  • Andre Villas-Boas' team sit fifth in the English Premier League table, with Bale's 19 goals in the competition putting Tottenham firmly in the hunt for a top four finish and qualification for the lucrative European Champions League.

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  • In July 1961, four months after my brother took up the trumpet, a competition for individuals and groups took place for concert bands nationwide.

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  • The five-time cup winners are the only one of the Premier League's traditional top four left in the FA Cup after Arsenal followed Manchester United and Liverpool out of the competition due to their 3-1 defeat at Stoke City.

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