1, A year ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.

2, Ten months ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.

3, What do you expect from an also-ran business publication like Fortune?

4, We know only the pain of the also-ran, for ever in the shadow of the siren.

5, He himself is a perennial Nobel also-ran.

6, He was an also-ran in the Presidential election four years ago; he is a forgotten man now.

7, Eventually,(http:///also-ran.html) Netscape was reduced to also-ran status — and the Justice Department took Microsoft to court on antitrust violations.

8, IDC predicts the software company, long an also-ran in cellphone software, by 2015 will become No. 2 with 20.9% of the market, with Apple's software in third place.

9, It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough.

10, He warrants only passing references, as if he were some also-ran in the race toward musical greatness.

11, Both projects, and more besides, aim to make Microsoft an also-ran in tomorrow's markets.

12, They will get a huge amount of grief overseas [if they come here] ... Is it really worth the risk of significant brand damage and regulatory and political scrutiny overseas to be an also-ran?

13, By Cook's own account, they took to each other instantly, and Cook made his fateful decision. He was told he would be a fool to leave Compaq for an also-ran on the verge of bankruptcy.

14, If there is one person who holds the key to the future of the American Internet also-ran, it may be Mr. Son, the 53-year-old billionaire founder of Softbank.

15, But if Google wants its platform to be anything more than an also-ran, it needs to devote many more resources to the mobile universe.

16, But what today looks like a masterstroke that has catapulted BarCap from being an also-ran on Wall Street into a credible competitor could easily have turned out disastrously.

17, There's little doubt that the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, who has turned an also-ran PC maker into the second-most-valuable company in the U.S. stock market.

18, But Button's situation in 2009 must surely feel better than his last two campaigns, when at the wheel of dreadful Honda machinery he was an also-ran .

19, But progress remains a struggle; Motorola is still an also-ran in global market share by units and by revenue.

20, So Japan is preparing to usher in a new government against a backdrop of worry that the nation is already Asia's political and economic also-ran, prematurely playing No. 2 to China.

21, And judging from the way investors have been treating Google's stock, you'd think it was also on track to face an early downgrade from Internet giant to also-ran.