Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a second [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] .
2 Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office .
3 The work of Becher and others , however , suggests the need for a second dimension in classifying curricula .
4 He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand .
5 Fusil had been worried that the two local teams would walk away with his event for a second year in succession , but he had his hopes firmly pinned on the ultra-fit , para-military French police team , GIGN , to uphold French honours .
6 Champion for a second time in 1983 , he teamed up with Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1986 and a year later was champion for the third time .
7 During the course of the meeting it became clear that the council is considering withdrawing the bill for a second time in the hope of being able to adopt a new parliamentary order-making procedure under the 1992 Transport and Public Works Act , which may come into force in the next parliamentary session .
8 This success to some extent relieved the Soviet pressure for a second front in Western Europe ; but when Stalin met Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran in November 1943 , he was still demanding a commitment to invade France .
9 SUZANNE , 19 , had visited my surgery for a second time in five days .
10 After arriving in office as Taoiseach for a second time in 1983 , he proceeded to collect opinions on such issues from various quarters .
11 It became a republic for a second time in 1968 and a full member of the Commonwealth in 1985 .
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