Example sentences of "[adv] at the second " in BNC.

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1 When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring .
2 Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference .
3 Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority .
4 They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt .
5 Page had been forced into the play-off after dropping a shot at the ninth , his last hole , but edged home at the second extra hole with a par three after Maguire 's ball had landed in heavy rough at the back of the green .
6 Then Yorkshire mounted a 49th-minute attack and , aided by a deflection , Robert Ward got his shot home at the second attempt .
7 A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 .
8 I cleared the bar at the first height , then at the second height , but on the third attempt I knocked the bar over .
9 He smiled lazily across at the second man from Six , directly opposite .
10 I braked too late at the second corner and changed down to third while turning the wheel , feeding it through my hands .
11 The stone disimpacted in eight of these patients after seven to 10 days decompression and was removed successfully at the second stage , whereas five of six patients with persistent stone impaction required more than one session for stone clearance .
12 I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home .
13 It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone .
14 That the question is not an idle one can be seen if one looks a little more closely at the second of our two examples .
15 The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin .
16 The man wetted his lips , looking hungrily at the second silver coin .
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