Example sentences of "came second with " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Gas , on 76 per cent recall , came second with its scenes of celebrities ‘ in control ’ as they flicked their fingers to reveal a blue flame . |
| 2 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |
| 3 | A former World Bank official , Marc Bazin , of the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress , came second with 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 4 | Kravchuk gained 61.59 per cent of the votes , beating six other candidates , including the Ukrainian nationalist , Vyacheslav Chornovil , who came second with 23 per cent . |
| 5 | The Gibraltar Social Democrats ( GSD ) , led by Peter Caruana , came second with 20.2 per cent ; the newly formed Gibraltar National Party ( GNP ) received 4.7 per cent ; and an independent candidate , the only member of the Association for Advancement of Civil Rights — the party which had held power until 1988 — to contest the election , gained 2.0 per cent . |
| 6 | The Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS — the successor to the former East German Socialist Unity Party — SED ) won 11.3 per cent overall ( but came second with 29.7 per cent in the east ) . |
| 7 | The MDF candidate came second with 17.3 per cent . |
| 8 | Ivo Bizjak of the Christian Democratic Party ( SKD ) came second with 21 per cent , and Jelko Kacin of the Democratic Party ( DS ) took third place with 7 per cent . |
| 9 | The two privatised Scottish electricity companies also did very well — ScottishPower was the top-ranked electricity company with a score of 709 points , and Scottish Hydro-Electric came second with 508 . |