31.   In a state where the presidential race went down to the wire, the Democratic incumbent held a narrow but consistent lead as precincts continued to report.

32.   It seemed the longer the race went, the better our car got.

33.   Jeremy Mayfield scrambled to a harrowing fifth-place finish after the race went green with two laps remaining.

34.   Meanwhile, the English Premier League race went to the final week before Manchester United edged Arsenal for the title.

35.   More than a dozen races might now go either way.

36.   Never mind it all, because in these trials, the race may not go to the swift, but to who has the best Speedo tailor.

37.   No less an authority than Deng Xiaoping promised that the races would go on.

38.   Nobody told me that the closer you get to the finish line, the more you want the race to go on.

39.   One is to let a rider move to the front of the pack when the race goes through his hometown.

40.   Pennant races were going on somewhere else far across the continent.