Example sentences of "come second [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Twice he had come second to Martin Potter , once at Lacanau and again at Biarritz .
2 Thiam , 58 , a former banker , named a 27-member power-sharing government the following day , bringing in opposition figures including the controversial Abdoulayé Wade , leader of the Democratic Party of Senegal ( PDS ) who had come second to Diouf in the presidential elections in both 1983 and 1988 .
3 The Workers ' Party ( PT ) , whose leader Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) had come second to Collor in the December 1989 run-off presidential elections [ see pp. 37117-18 ] , made significant gains , but lost control of the local government of Sao Paulo and failed to win the mayoralty in Rio de Janeiro .
4 So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast .
5 The former ruling League of Communists ( LC ) had come second with 75 seats .
6 On 5 December he received 44.6 per cent of the vote and was forced into a runoff election against Mitterrand , who had come second with 31.7 per cent .
7 On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) .
8 He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) .
9 Emil Constantinescu , who had come second in the presidential elections in September [ see p. 39104 ] , was elected president of the main opposition alliance , the Democratic Convention ( DCR ) , on Nov. 27 .
10 Lester Piggott has come second in his return to racing at Leicester this afternoon .
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