Sentence examples for second from the previous from inspiring English sources

In a race in which records are usually lowered by hundredths of a seconds, he shaved more than three-tenths of a second from the previous standard of 48.18.

Fortunately, that new 2-liter, 240-horsepower TwinPower engine chops nearly a second from the previous 328i's 0-to-60 time, making the sprint in 5.9 seconds, BMW says.

Earnings in the second quarter were up a third from the previous year, he added.

The crackdown has yielded €12.2bn in 2015, up almost a fifth from the previous year.

Iraq executed at least 169 people, an increase of almost a third from the previous year.

That figure is down by nearly a third from the previous parliamentary poll in 2008.

Tells about this day, which ended with the stock at 29 1/4, down only an eighth from the previous day.

In January alone, chip sales plummeted by almost a third from the previous year, to $15.3 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

In the year to the end of February 2016, Walden received a total pay package of £1.5m, down more than a third from the previous year.

The combined profits of the 143 companies that delivered annual numbers dropped by almost a third from the previous year, to $35.9bn.

The Lilly Endowment also saw its giving climb steeply, by about two- thirds from the previous year to $425 million in 1998.