The phrase "a serial second" is not commonly used in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in contexts discussing time, sequences, or rankings, but clarity is essential.
Example: "In the race, he finished in a serial second, always just behind the leader."
Alternatives: "a consecutive second" or "a repeated second".
His friends describe him as a "serial first dater" who had cut a wide romantic swath through the 10021 ZIP code.
It looks as though the accusation of being a serial assassin – first deserting his friend, David Cameron, and then the midnight murder of Boris Johnson – may well prove crucial in the end.
Part would probably ask the opposite: how do I make the music last forever?" A book by Kalevi Aho discusses Mr. Rautavaara's symphonies in the Hegelian terms of thesis (Symphony No. 1), antithesis (No. 2) and synthesis (No. 3), with the serial Fourth forming a fresh contrast to the Third, and the Fifth a synthesis of the Third and the Fourth.
These observations reveal two points: first, grooming in dirty fruit flies is a serial behaviour; and second, it follows a stereotyped order.
Penny is a serial entrepreneur and second time CEO.
Her second was a serial adulterer, while her third bled her dry financially.
Mr. Agarwal, named the first president of edX, describes himself as a "serial entrepreneur" who first went into business as a child in Mangalore, India, building coops for 40 chickens and selling their eggs.
Mr Flowers has been a serial local councillor, first trying to stand for the council in Coventry, and becoming a councillor first in Rochdale and then latterly in Bradford.
And it was that situation that gave Kolonas - a serial entrepreneur, whose first 'enterprise' was selling bespoke Mothers Day cards to the kids at his brother's nursery school, aged six - came up with the idea for DeskandCo a business that would find companies with empty, unused space that new and growing businesses could use, and more importantly, afford.
