1.   If you expect to pass, why not go for a merit?

2.   Challenging strongly under Richard Quinn at the two furlong pole, Spring briefly looked set to collect the prestigious Group One prize, but failed to quicken.

3.   Even as Congress moves to overhaul the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency won a prestigious prize for innovative government today.

4.   He has won several prestigious prizes.

5.   He wrote more than two dozen books, all told, and won a number of prestigious Spanish literary prizes.

6.   Hope was dwindling that our guys would be able to take home this prestigious prize for getting a ball in the hole with the fewest shots.

7.   Other prestigious prizes are at stake, with the Rolex Player of the Year award and Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average also being decided.

8.   The prestigious prize is given annually to a female playwright in the English-speaking world.

9.   The winner of the prestigious prize was British architect Sir Norman Foster.

10.   They established prestigious prizes for artworks, which then went on national tours.