Example sentences of "taking a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many farmers have adjusted to changing economic and social fortunes by taking a second job rather than leave their farms altogether . |
| 2 | Or , if you are young and fit enough , how about taking a second job at weekends , or some evenings ? |
| 3 | The government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ) , in Taiwan is reportedly thinking about taking a second crack at a locally designed Sparc processor : it supposedly came up with 25MHz three-chip silicon in the spring , but was shooting for 50MHz . |
| 4 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 5 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |
| 6 | He was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College , Cambridge , taking a second class in the classical tripos ( 1878 ) . |
| 7 | Disease free mucosa from cancer patients was not studied in the present investigation because of the technical difficulty of taking a second biopsy after the tumour had been removed . |
| 8 | So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it . |