Example sentences of "coming second [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases the interview was the most important device with qualifications coming second for non-manuals . |
| 2 | From eighty six to eighty nine he was planning spokesperson for Portsmouth City Council and in nineteen eighty nine he was a candidate for the Euro election fo for and East Hants , coming second with fifty one thousand votes . |
| 3 | On May 9 Labour leader Neil Kinnock claimed in the House of Commons that the reforms meant that the clinical needs of patients were coming second to commercial considerations . |
| 4 | Wade , the PDS secretary-general , was a controversial figure ; he had been a presidential candidate in both 1983 and 1988 , coming second to President Abdou Diouf on both occasions . |
| 5 | Nigel Mansell was certainly whacked yesterday … on the verge of collapse after coming second to Ayrton Senna in the Monacco Grand Prix |
| 6 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 7 | The other medal was for coming second in a canoe race . |
| 8 | I resumed running in my fifth year at the school , winning the 200 metres in the school sports and coming second in the 100 and 400 metres . |
| 9 | Commentators calculated that without tactical voting by supporters of the liberal Democratic Party ( which fell to third place after coming second in 1989 ) , the NP would have lost . |