Sentence examples for distant seconds from inspiring English sources

"Information and analysis are always distant seconds to mood and impression," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The Times.

Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam and other cities run distant seconds and thirds when it comes to establishing a European toehold for a US firm.

COST, duration and convenience are typical concerns when selecting a driver education program, "but those are distant seconds to the main issue of quality," said William E. Van Tassel, manager of driver training programs at AAA.

Stark statistics hang on the screen, spiked with archive footage of old car commercials and the 1967 riot, but information and analysis are always distant seconds to mood and impression.

(Nicole Herrington) 'Detropia' (No rating, 1 33) A visual caress of postindustrial blight, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's dreamy documentary about a slowly crumbling Detroit places information and analysis distant seconds to mood and impression.

(Dargis) 'Detropia' (No rating, 1 33) A visual caress of postindustrial blight, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's dreamy documentary about a slowly crumbling Detroit places information and analysis distant seconds to mood and impression.

They finished a distant third.

Stanford was a distant fourth.

Texas is a distant third.

France was a distant fourth.

Distant third in the ratings?