Example sentences of "[prep] second place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 2 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 3 | In Schleswig-Holstein , the SPD beat the CDU into second place at local level for the first time . |
| 4 | In 1987 , The Tsarevich , jointly owned by Edgar Bronfman , the Chairman of The Seagram Company and Ivan Straker , Chairman of Seagram Distillers ran into second place behind Maori Venture , owned by 92-year-old Jim Joel who thus becomes one of the select band who have owned both English Derby and Grand National winners . |
| 5 | Although women are a primary focus of many psychological investigations of the family , for instance , they tend to be relegated to second place in biological explanations of the results . |