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So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates



 
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So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates #1 (permalink) Sun Jun 08, 2008 19:02 pm   So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates		  
Hi, please have a look at the passage below:
Ruth Lawrence made history yesterday when she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates who sat the entrance exam for St. Hugh's College, Oxford. The all-women's college is likely to offer her a scholarship.

=> I just can't understand the underlined phrase. What do they mean?
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So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates #2 (permalink) Mon Jun 09, 2008 0:01 am   So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates		  
It means Ruth came in (i.e., finished) first among the 530 candidates. She had the highest score.

The word "clear" indicates that her score was so much higher than the next highest score that Ruth was clearly (obviously) the top candidate.
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So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates #3 (permalink) Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:38 am   So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates		  
Thanks a lot, Jamie.

[quote="Jamie (K)"]It means Ruth came in (i.e., finished) first among the 530 candidates. quote]

=> So is the sentence correct in formal English without "in"?
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So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates #4 (permalink) Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:57 am   So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates		  
nessie wrote:
=> So is the sentence correct in formal English without "in"?

It sounds a little odd to me also without "in", but when I google the phrase, I do find am example or two of its use in the UK and New Zealand. The rest of the examples, however, are from Germany, Ukraine and Singapore. We need someone British to tell us whether they'd use the "in" or not.
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So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates #5 (permalink) Tue Jun 10, 2008 17:27 pm   So difficult to understand! When she came a clear first out of the 530 candidates		  
Thanks a lot, Jamie, so let's wait for some Britsh people's ideas :)
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