Sentence examples for placing them first from inspiring English sources

Of New York's 2.2 million Latinos, 830,000 are Puerto Rican and 579,000 Dominican, placing them first and second in a growing population, up from 1.7 million in 1990.

In the slaughterhouse studied here, the turkey carcasses were chilled by placing them first in a water tank for five minutes before hanging them for 24 hours in a room at 2°C.

The Giants have 16 more sacks than they've surrendered, placing them second in the league in net sacks behind the Denver Broncos (21).

The Florida Marlins, who won the World Series only three years ago, will receive about $15 million, same as the Milwaukee Brewers, placing them third among the recipients.

The Swiss already consume an average of more than 25 pounds of chocolate a year, placing them second only to the British, so how do you get them to eat more?

Rush has released 24 gold records and 14 platinum records (including 3 multi-platinum), placing them third behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band.

In the 2008 09 season Leek's average attendance was 241, placing them fourth out of twenty teams in the Northern Premier League Division One South, down 20% compared to the previous season, when the team played in the Premier Division.

As the dominant plant taxon, angiosperms are estimated to contain at least 350,000 extant species (Soltis et al. 2008), placing them second only to insects in terms of species richness.

Only one of the nine judges placed them first.

For middle school applications you get to choose four schools in order of preference, but the top schools ignore any applications that do not place them first.

If Le Gougne's integrity was under attack for putting Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze in first place, then why were the other four judges who placed them first not summoned to Lausanne and subjected to cross-examination?