Example sentences of "come second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who wants to come second ? |
| 2 | In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM . |
| 3 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 4 | Adam Smith of Annadale set produced a 13.59 triple jump to come second to Micky McDonald of Ballymena and Antrim who recorded 13.76 metres . |
| 5 | Twice he had come second to Martin Potter , once at Lacanau and again at Biarritz . |
| 6 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 7 | The former ruling League of Communists ( LC ) had come second with 75 seats . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even if a British judge had travelled abroad , Cheltenham may still have come second . |
| 15 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | the District has come second , out of 90 in the country , in the ‘ Most Improved ’ category of the British Gas Gold Flame awards . |
| 18 | I 've come second |
| 19 | Well Shell 's bank has come second |
| 20 | Yeah even though she 's down on the bottom she 's bound to of come second |
| 21 | ours and so erm so they , so we would have come second had we had an , had we had an audience , I mean that 's the ridiculous thing , it 's the content , nothing to do with what , you know , the environment is it ? |
| 22 | Lester Piggott has come second in his return to racing at Leicester this afternoon . |
| 23 | John Lenihan , an Eire international , came second . |
| 24 | Health , education , and social services were issues that came second only to unemployment in terms of public priorities . |
| 25 | Instead , he came second and had to make do with £80,000 . |
| 26 | Mr Rollins , the assistant tourism director , asked everyone he met what they associated with Cheltenham : horses and educated ladies came second by a length to spies . |
| 27 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 28 | America , number one in 1989 , came second in 1990 , with exports of $394 billion ( 11.4% ) . |
| 29 | I came second in the UK Astroid Championships . |
| 30 | In her first run in the Sheikh 's colours she came second to Katies in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and in October was a strong-finishing second , beaten a neck , to Palace Music in the Champion Stakes . |