Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 32 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 33 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |