Example sentences of "[noun] for the second [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan Bromberg describes in some detail the US 's preparation for the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy . |
| 2 | It began on Oct. 1 after tens of thousands of nationalists opposed to communist party domination of the Ukrainian government had taken part for the second consecutive day in demonstrations in Kiev . |
| 3 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
| 4 | The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year . |
| 5 | Hot shot : Rangers striker Ally McCoist has won the Adidas Golden Boot award for the second consecutive season . |
| 6 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 7 | Defeat would virtually assure the Belgians of a place in the finals in America , while forcing the Welsh to join Czechoslovakia and the unpredictable Romanians in a mad scramble for the second qualifying place . |
| 8 | The mixed probes for the largest subunit hybridized with fragment SD , and more specifically , with the smaller subclones RT and RN' ; the mixture of probes for the second largest subunit recognized fragment SB , and fragment RK within the former one ( data not shown ) . |
| 9 | The world champion , who trails in fifth place in the driver 's championship with only four points , incurred the wrath on Sunday of German newcomer Michael Schumacher , who finished third behind the two Williams drivers for the second successive race . |
| 10 | Merit is defined by the hierarchy of metals from which they are struck : gold for the winner , silver for the second best and bronze for the third ( fig. 43 ) . |
| 11 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 12 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |
| 13 | ENGLAND 's Mark Foster wrote his name in the record books for the second successive day when he set a European short-course 50 metres freestyle record at a World Cup meeting in Gelsenkirchen , Germany , yesterday . |
| 14 | Davis Love III , the American , slipped from second place with a one-over-par 73 for 138 , and another American , Mark Calcavecchia , missed the cut for the second successive tournament . |
| 15 | The club is having to play all its fixtures away from home for the second successive season because a new roof is being built at a cost of £1.3million . |
| 16 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 17 | Uppsala , Sweden , is the venue for the second international congress on this subject , which will be held on 2–4 July 1992 . |
| 18 | ROBERT OWEN , a largely unconsidered left-hander from Avon , became a surprise semi-finalist in the British National Championships for the second successive year at Newcastle yesterday . |
| 19 | BNFL took a further step along the road of its partnership with schools when about 100 employees from throughout the company converged on Risley for the second annual governors ' seminar . |
| 20 | And his perfect ending would be for Villa to become the first winners of the Premier League and break United 's hearts for the second successive season in a title run-in . |
| 21 | The proposed Education Department budget of $26,600 million represented an increase of only $500 million ( 2 per cent , i.e. below inflation for the second successive year , despite Bush 's claim to be the " education President " ) . |
| 22 | ROLF GOELZ , West Germany 's leading rider , dominated a four-man sprint to win the 214km Milan to Turin classic for the second successive year yesterday . |
| 23 | Senior champion Andrew Roche ( Liverpool Mercury-Townsend ) shot to the top of the table by retaining his title for the second successive season and now has 17 points . |
| 24 | Orders for the second 10 years , by which time the capital costs of THORP will also have been recovered , are coming in steadily with more than 40 per-cent capacity sold to Germany , Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear . |
| 25 | In April the Environmental Secretary Michael Howard announced that businesses facing higher rate bills as a result of the introduction of the UBR in 1990 would have their rate increases frozen in real terms for the second successive year . |
| 26 | Heavy going at Heathfield made for some slow times at the South Down & Eridge , where Chris Gordon scored a double for the second successive Saturday on Kirstenson and Please Explain . |
| 27 | SURREY , the English Counties League champions , completed the double for the second successive season when they beat Middlesex 13–11 in the Evian Inter-County Tournament final at the Orchard Sports Centre in London yesterday . |
| 28 | He is also in the chair for the second single , due in May , and the debut album which is pencilled in for an August release . |
| 29 | Books were included in the W H Smith catalogue for the second consecutive year , which proved ‘ popular with our customers , and we reckon we got more sales out of it ’ . |
| 30 | More than half of the state was again declared a disaster area in April 1991 when several days of heavy rains produced severe flooding for the second consecutive year . |