Sentence examples for second biggest for from inspiring English sources

The crowd was the second biggest for a Belmont Stakes.

Australia's largest gambling company, Tabcorp Holdings, has offered to buy Tab Ltd., the second biggest, for 1.9 billion Australian dollars ($1.35 billion) in cash and stock.

2.48pm: "During the pre-match announcements, the biggest cheer was for Rooney, the second biggest for Terry and the third biggest for Capello," writes my colleague Richard Williams in Port Elizabeth.

Ellery Hanley, Martin Offiah and Jason Robinson were also in the 71,526 crowd – the second biggest for an Old Trafford decider since Wigan claimed their only previous Super League title by beating Leeds in the first Grand Final in front of 43,553, underlining how completely it has been accepted in the subsequent 12 years.

The deal is the second biggest for a defensive player in league history, behind only Ndamukong Suh.

EDMC, the second biggest for-profit college company, saw its stock plunge from $43 in 2006 to $2.84 in 2012, and student enrollments dropped significantly.

The 2011 APSCU keynote speaker, General Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State, chairs the advisory board of Leeds' investment firm, which owns a major stake in EDMC, the second biggest for-profit college business.

In 2013, the Journal published an op-ed by private equity man Jeffrey Leeds, then one of the key investors in the second biggest for-profit college business, Education Management Corp., and his paid pal, former Senator Bob Kerrey, arguing against the gainful employment rule without disclosing the writers' extensive ties to the industry.

Aided by the DCI Group, a giant Republican lobbying and advocacy firm, Education Management Corporation (EDMC), the second biggest for-profit college company, engaged in major astroturfing, or faux grassroots lobbying, during the previous 2010-11 gainful employment battle, and it seems EDMC is seeking to repeat that effort now.

It was the fifth-biggest two-week rally for the S.& P. 500 index since 1945 and the seventh biggest for the Dow.

Japan retains the world's second-largest national economy and will be third or fourth biggest for decades to come.