Sentence examples similar to a second tier firm from inspiring English sources

"If you're in a second-tier firm, you never get a chance at that great company".

Herbert Smith, a second-tier firm, announced a merger with Freehills, one of Australia's biggest, on June 28th.

It requires a certain scope to be a major auditing firm -- a justification the big firms have used as they merged to shrink the Big Eight to the Big Five -- and it would be very difficult now for a second-tier firm to rise to compete with the big firms.

Mr. ARRINGTON: Second tier firms.

As top-tier contractors respond to attacks by improving their security, hackers are increasingly targeting a second tier of smaller defense firms with innovative military technology but little experience in protecting secrets.

This firm then holds similar stakes in a second tier of companies, which will in turn maintain stakes in a third tier.

Across town, Henry Blodget, a 32-year-old freelance-magazine-writer-turned-Internet-analyst for an obscure, second-tier firm called CIBC Oppenheimer, was saying that Amazon's stock would reach $400 a share.

There's a second tier here.

A second tier of competition in Jamaica.

The workers dread a second tier.

I've got to understand the steel plant, I've got to understand every piece at a second tier, a third tier and a fourth tier below that.