Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
| 3 | All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity . |
| 4 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 5 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 6 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 7 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |