1.   He played for Barcelona for four years, and during that time they won two major competitions.

2.   Major competitions are held annually and provide sport for the participants and a colourful spectacle for the landlubber.

3.   Alex Warren, Scottish ballroom guru, traces the growth of the major competitions in ballroom dancing.

4.   Hammond Wilde and the Chairman had agreed that pairings would be more dramatic than the three-balls now customary in major competitions.

5.   An Ulster pipe band yesterday became the first band in the United Kingdom to win six major competitions in a year.

6.   Meanwhile, Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston.

7.   And last week, members of a Chicago high school team that won a major academic competition confessed that they had cheated -- with the encouragement of a teacher.

8.   And this time, Sun, IBM, Oracle, and BEA will also offer major competition.

9.   At her next major competition, the Lalique Trophy in mid-November in Paris, she did not try a quad, and she came home with a bronze medal.

10.   After she fired her longtime coach, Frank Carroll, in October, she was noticeably distant on the ice and inconsistent in major competitions.