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The phrase "a second shortcoming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing multiple flaws or disadvantages in a particular context, indicating that this is the second one being mentioned.
Example: "The first shortcoming of the proposal was its lack of detail, and a second shortcoming is its unrealistic timeline."
Alternatives: "another drawback" or "a further limitation".
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A second shortcoming in existing activism literature is that tests of post-activism changes in operating performance typically do not adequately control for natural trends accounting metrics.
From the endogenous weighting system follows a second shortcoming.
A second shortcoming is that the gradual-morphological model leads people to view eye evolution as a single, linear path from simple to complex eye.
A second shortcoming is that we included patients with different etiologies for ALI/ARDS.
The fact that the amount of goods being transferred could not be quantified is a second shortcoming.
A second shortcoming is that current pathogen annotation tools primarily make predictions using the simplistic criterion of sequence similarity.
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A third shortcoming, say critics, is that the system cannot address the problems faced by American schools.
A third shortcoming of the Lords' conclusions, and indeed most analysis in this area, is that all immigrants are lumped together.
A third shortcoming is that, after an adjustment period, wages and contracts are more likely to adjust more frequently than they would with a 2% inflation target, making monetary policy less effective.
A third shortcoming is the limited utilization of domain ontologies in current retrieval methods.
A first shortcoming of Dfdist is the possibility of detecting false positives (i.e. committing type-I errors) [ 33, 34].
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