in the second place

1. see under in the first place.

Example Sentences

“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.

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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.

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“When you look at how conservatives function, what you see is that they’re more likely to get married now in the first place, and they’re also more likely to be happily married in the second place,” Mr. Wilcox said.

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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.

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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.’

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