The children's rate of increase outstripped their closest rivals, the 65 and older set, by more than 2 to 1, the report said.

She does not agree that her closest rivals may have thought they had a better chance to win without her.

But our closest rivals have only one, at the most two, production facilities.

Each of his three closest rivals also birdied the short par-5 final hole.

But he is still 25 points ahead of his closest rivals.

Their closest rivals, as a matter of fact, are on the same stage.

With all that, the Next machine is thousands of dollars less expensive than its closest rivals.

The team was in the lead with a value card stock before their closest rivals.

I myself come from a small country in which we are on first-name terms with the prime minister and his closest rivals for the job.

He has a formidable lead in the polls, no primary opposition so far and three times the campaign money raised by his closest Democratic rival.