Example sentences of "[noun prp] was the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In March a Policy Directions Paper was accepted by the Council.This was the second stage in the process leading to production of the Plan , linking an earlier Issues and Context Report and the draft Plan . ’ |
| 2 | TOP Augsburg was the second stop on Mozart 's progress to Paris with his mother in 1777 . |
| 3 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 4 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 5 | O'Rourke was the second House postal supervisor to co-operate with the investigation . |
| 6 | Ms Place was the second foreign aid worker shot dead since January . |
| 7 | In the ensuing proceedings the local authority were the applicants , W. 's aunt was first respondent since she had parental responsibilities concurrently with those of the local authority and W. was the second respondent by the Official Solicitor as her guardian ad litem . |
| 8 | Stephen was the second resident at Hallerton House to die after experimenting with solvents . |
| 9 | By 1811 Belper was the second largest town in Derbyshire . |
| 10 | Sweden was the second member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA — which was collectively seeking to negotiate a European economic area with the EC — see pp. 38307 ; this page ) to apply for EC membership , Austria having done so in July 1989 [ see p. 36822 ] . |
| 11 | Sri Lanka , for whose tea exports Iraq was the second largest customer and which also suffered from the impact on its expatriate nationals and the loss of their earnings , sought international compensation for its reluctant imposition of sanctions . |
| 12 | Michelle Pfeiffer was the second of four children to a heating and air-conditioning contractor and his wife . |
| 13 | Herbert was the second of their six children , and at the age of twelve was sent to St Bartholomew 's Grammar School in Newbury , Berkshire . |
| 14 | A month later Karen McGregor was the second Glasgow prostitute murdered . |
| 15 | America was the second biggest market with 64 sales worth $2 billion and Britain in third place with 61 companies sold for $1.5 billion . |
| 16 | Kamal was the second half of the London cell . |
| 17 | At that time , Lincolnshire was the second largest county in England but it was thirteenth in terms of population ; it had only 208,557 people in 1801 and 407,222 fifty years later . |
| 18 | The prosecution say Kelly was the second running man , but the police took a calculated risk . |