21.   The lavish, much publicized campaign of publisher Steve Forbes placed a distant fourth, running barely ahead of Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas.

22.   The United States is in second, Romania is in third and Ukraine is a relatively distant fourth.

23.   This is bad stuff, the kind of violence that makes people sneer at hockey, relegates it to a distant fourth among team sports in the United States.

24.   Bedoya, who is running a distant fourth in opinion polls, said Samper was to blame for the murder for allowing the rampant deterioration of law-and-order.

25.   Cadbury is in third place in the global soft drinks business but has run a distant fourth in the big U.S. market.

26.   Construction tycoon Richard Lugner, who was predicted in opinion polls to finish a distant fourth.

27.   Duran was a distant fourth with most votes counted in Tepetongo.

28.   Harold Bedoya, a former armed forces chief, is a distant fourth.

29.   He is running a distant fourth.

30.   In less than two years, Northrop Grumman Corp. has catapulted from a distant fourth among defense contractors to a strong third.