in the second place
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“Much appreciated, sir! But I’m more concerned with the fellow inside. In the first place, he doesn’t know how to fly it. In the second place, after my rough landing in the treetops, that balloon’s in bad shape. I’d wager it’s leaking hot air like, well, a faucet. It might stay up for a day or so, but that’s it. And with the wind blowing the way it is . . .” His voice grew ominous.
From Literature
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The child was doubly mistaken, for in the first place she meant matador, and in the second place there was no matador, just a bright red steam locomotive.
From Literature
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In the second place, AstraZeneca doesn’t happen to mention the special treatment that orphan drugs receive from the federal government.
From Los Angeles Times
Von Neumann told me, ‘You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.’
From Scientific American
Tour favorite Michael Matthews of Australia, who began the day in the second place, dropped his chain at the start of the final climb and now is out of contention.
From Seattle Times
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