Sentence examples for attaining second place from inspiring English sources
With Britain attaining second place in the medals table, and well before the Games reach their conclusion, editors have rushed to praise our sporting stars.
BMC was active at two of the traditional season-opening races, attaining seventh place with Ballan in the Italian opener Trofeo Laigueglia, and eighth with Quinziato in the Belgian opener, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
Further recognition came in 2006 when Liddell attained sixth place in a poll of more than 110,000 people conducted by Liverpool's official website to determine a list of "100 Players Who Shook The Kop".
Her 2-0 and 2-1 defeat of the Hungarian saw Butkevych attain third-place in the women's 59kg division.
A top-16 world ranking at the end of the Olympic qualification period in May next year would qualify one pair, but attaining a second place requires both GB teams to be ranked within the top eight.
What we simply need to understand is that there is nothing to attain in the first place, except perhaps rediscover our "primal" self.
"It was a good swim and I knew was capable, but in the last 20 metres I could feel the guys around me and the lungs were burning - that hurt," Roebuck told BBC Sport after attaining his second Olympic place of the week.
Aristotle took second place.
Noon, second place at first place.
In Mr. Taubman's account, on the eve of Stalin's death Khrushchev appears to have been in a stronger insider position than hitherto suspected, having attained the second or third place in the Kremlin hierarchy.
