11.   It sounds grandiose, but in fact his firm is already leaps and bounds bigger than its nearest competitors.

12.   It will be double the size of its nearest competitor, General Growth Properties Inc.

13.   Its nearest competitor at the time, the Fujiyama coaster in Japan, is some five stories shorter.

14.   Its nearest competitors, Adidas and Reebok, are far behind in the United States and abroad, but Adidas is gaining ground.

15.   Its nearest competitor, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, has started clinical trials on one drug that it discovered using genomics.

16.   Lambretta, another Italian make that offered greater performance than the Vespa, became the nearest competitor.

17.   Since her nearest competitors are in Chadron, she is likely to have an exclusive on the house and not have to split the commission with another agent.

18.   Similarly, in retail, the top performer in many categories turns its inventory much more rapidly than its nearest competitor.

19.   That kind of early foothold in the international wireless market distinguishes Crown Castle from American Tower, its nearest competitor.

20.   The chain will be five times the size of its nearest competitor.