in the second place

1. see under in the first place.

Example Sentences

“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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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.

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In the second place, midterm elections are almost always referendums on the party in power, i.e.,

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