1.   Laing converted with a superb effort from the touch line but Dungannon narrowed the lead with another McGarry penalty.

2.   Also Wednesday, Boeing significantly narrowed the lead of its rival Airbus Industrie by changing the way it reports airplane orders.

3.   A glance at the leader board showed Cook narrowing the lead.

4.   That narrowed her lead to two strokes over Crosby, then her closest pursuer.

5.   Pakistan narrowed the lead when Tahir Zaman converted a penalty but seconds later Australia restored its margin through Jeremy Hiskins.

6.   Boetsch narrowed the lead but could not turn the tables on his opponent.

7.   But its two-point lead was narrowed to one, and the league contest is the closest in years.

8.   George W. Bush has asked the justices to throw out the hand-counted tally that narrowed his lead over Al Gore.

9.   The Diamondbacks narrowed the lead to one three times.

10.   The Jazz narrowed the lead to four points three times but could never come any closer.