How to Use by some distance in a Sentence

by some distance

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• WhatsApp is the world’s leading messaging platform by some distance.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Gakpo should have equalised with an 87th-minute header that went well wide, 23 minutes after Salah lashed at a close-range shot and missed the goal by some distance.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
• The political crisis, triggered by a standoff over the government's budget, has seen the MSCI France stock index lag its peers by some distance.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
• As the world’s best women’s team by some distance this decade, FC Barcelona Femini will go through a phase of reconstruction by looking inwards at its La Masia academy.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Of the top 10 appearance-makers in Premier League history, a list which Milner now sits at No 1, the 40-year-old utility man has made the lowest percentage of starts by some distance.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• Safaricom, which is partly owned by South Africa’s Vodacom and the UK’s Vodafone, is by some distance the biggest telecoms company in Kenya, East Africa’s biggest economy.
  — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The graphic below shows that Leny Yoro and Lisandro Martinez are, by some distance, United’s most comfortable ball-progressing centre-backs, both ranking among the Premier League’s top five for line-breaking passes per 90 minutes played last season.
  — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025