91.   It was exasperating for the Angels to watch the scoreboard as the Mariners opened up a big lead on the Rangers.

92.   Jumping out to a big lead, reality hitting the higher-seed too late.

93.   Kansas often jumped out to big leads, only to have to Trojans chip away.

94.   Knowles went into the election with a big lead in the polls despite acerbic advertisements run by Campbell, a retired Anchorage businessman.

95.   Led by Chris Mills and Danny Ferry, the Cavs ran up a big early lead.

96.   Like his father before him, he has managed to blow a big lead.

97.   Meeting in San Francisco, the Republicans were happily united behind their candidate with his big lead in the polls.

98.   Nationally, Bush maintains a big lead.

99.   No one in the building knew how fragile the big lead was better than Gary Williams, for whom Duke has become a personal Ahab-like obsession.

100.   Nonetheless, Haseltine said the SmithKline deal was worthwhile, because it gave Human Genome the resources to grab a big lead in genomics.