Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the second [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Former European Open champion Andrew Murray , of Manchester , took a share of fourth place with Argentine Eduardo Romero ( 69 ) and the Caribbean newcomer Stephen Ames who shot 67 for the second day in a row .
2 Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover .
3 But England coach Kevin Cadle left his side to provide the perfect answer as they thrashed the Danes 80–63 in the second leg .
4 Boris Becker was surprisingly beaten by Spain 's Jordi Burillo , ranked 230th in the world , 1–6 , 7–6 , 6–4 in the second round of the Spanish Open at Barcelona .
5 IBM is promising to come up with a cost-efficient CMOS microprocessor-based 390 in the second half of the year .
6 Encouraged by the success of the publication , CD collected together other pieces previously published in periodicals but not included in the First Series and Sketches by Boz Second Series was published in one volume by Macrone in 1837 ( but bearing the date 1836 ) , uniform with the previous 2 volumes , and including 10 illustrations ( 12 in the second edition ) by Cruikshank .
7 On April 7th 1855 , Charles Edward Prior MD , was elected by 29 votes to 12 on the second round of voting , and remained in post until June 1st 1900 ; he and his successor , Dr. Goldsmith , kept medical report books , the earliest survivor of which begins in February 1873 .
8 HANSIE CRONJE ( 75no ) and Andrew Hudson ( 52 ) helped South Africa reach 163-3 in reply to India 's total of 212 on the second day of the third Test in Port Elizabeth .
9 President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani visited Turkey on April 29-May 2 on the second leg of his first tour abroad as President [ see also p. 38169 ] .
10 The ban on activities of the republican Communist Party ( CP ) , which had been lifted on Sept. 23 , was reimposed on Oct. 2 at the second vote in the Supreme Soviet .
11 Realistically , six points will probably be enough , and with all those matches against teams in the bottom eight of the Second Division , promotion looks a formality .
12 This ambiguity hinging on the word ‘ earth 's ’ in line 7 of the second stanza .
13 Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year .
14 Holm , 24 , who reached the last 16 at Wimbledon last year before losing to Stefan Edberg in four sets , also trailed 5–4 in the second set but found his range in time to break New Zealander Steven in the 11th game to level the match .
15 Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin .
16 Ulster bowlers showed up well with Willie Loughrey from Portrush , a senior inter-association bowler 11 win over Phillip Darcy in the first round and then beat Paul Doyle 21–15 in the second round .
17 Meanwhile , the British national championships at Newcastle saw their first upset when the England international Martin Bodimeade fell 9-5 , 9-2 , 9-3 in the second round to the Scottish No.2 , Colin Keith .
18 The company claims that the new machines at least double graphics performance on Intergraph applications ; the Series 2700 and 6700 will be available this quarter and the Series 6800 in the second quarter .
19 Using this technology SunSelect intends to make Windows emulation available for Solaris 2.1 in the second quarter of next year and will eventually deliver the stuff on multiple platforms .
20 ENGLAND beat Guatemela 14-8 on the second day of the third Limited Handicap World Championship at the San Cristobal Polo Club in Santiago yesterday , writes Eric Weil .
21 The main periods of interest range from the late 1800s to the Second World War .
22 Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF .
23 It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught .
24 There are two levels of the first factor ( high and low ) and three of the second factor ( high , medium and low ) .
25 Miller went on to express his admiration for the depth of Leeds resources , saying ‘ They started with 3 internationals in Midfield , then put on another three in the second half ! ! ’
26 Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters .
27 With the first section , take your one pair in the first column and link it with any two brackets of three from the second column to give you your best eight selections .
28 There were 4670 liquidations in that quarter , a 17 per cent fall on the total of 5634 in the second quarter of 1991 .
29 The manner of her 6-4 , 7-5 victory over the 1990 champion was impressive , for the Swede offered a strong challenge , and led 5-2 in the second set .
30 The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game , by which time Horner had begun to dig in .
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