Example sentences of "perhaps the second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 2 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 3 | As I said before , the Handbook of Human Intelligence is excellent as far as it goes , but it certainly does not go far enough ; perhaps the second edition will improve on this sad state of affairs ! |
| 4 | One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first . |
| 5 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |