11.   Most preseason magazines had the Bruins tabbed a distant fourth behind Arizona, Stanford and USC.

12.   Oregon, the second-ranked team in both human polls, finished a distant fourth in the BCS rankings.

13.   Political change comes a distant fourth.

14.   Partly because of the ad, Forbes came in a distant fourth in New Hampshire.

15.   Publishing mogul Steve Forbes was a distant fourth.

16.   Rite Aid was running a distant fourth in the South, so it decided to abandon the market and plans to sell other stores in the region.

17.   The best shortstop of all is a distant fourth.

18.   The Chevrolet Lumina lagged a distant fourth.

19.   The company is a distant fourth in the cellular phone industry.

20.   The Hughes agreement leaves Northrop a distant fourth in the defense industry, especially hurting the company in the business of making electronic parts for weapons, analysts said.