'second head start' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a second chance to begin an activity or process. For example, "After the failed attempt, the team had another chance at success with a second head start."
Noble pursuits both, I have to say, but it takes longer for me to type than it takes him to whine, even if I do have a four minute and 11 second head start.
And I'm guessing that containing a tantruming package of fury might be difficult when you're strapped to a plank, not least because the time taken to undo your bindings gives the kid a five second head start when they do a runner.
The intention was to make a film that isn't funny but might be amusing, to have a script that sounds like the characters have been given a 10 second head start to prepare what they will say, but even then they get it wrong.
Players should be given a 10 second head start to run, while the person who is it counts to 10. He/she will then yell "GO" and then start chasing the others.
(You may want to have them "it" first, so they get to be it at least one time!) Give the runners a 5 second head start If the tagger(s) are fast runners or playing against younger players, you should give a longer head start to be fair.
By the time of the final event, the 800m, she had the equivalent of a six-second head start over her nearest rival, Nadine Broersen.
Biathlon – women's pursuit Women's sprint gold medalist Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia is a favorite in this event, after getting a 19.9-second head start for winning Sunday's sprint competition.
When Jared Allen, a defensive end for the Minnesota Vikings, got a split-second head start on his way to a sack of Jacksonville quarterback Blaine Gabbert in the first week of the N.F.L. season, it highlighted more than just the Jaguars' belief that the play should have been blown dead before Allen smashed Gabbert to the ground.
A lot of the guys in the race have run faster times than Farah has; given a few seconds head start and solid pacing, they can win.
Nate had arrived at school -- among the first Head Start centers in the nation to administer the test -- with an eager smile that morning.
Darren Walker was born in a charity hospital in Lafayette, La., and grew up in the 1960s in a single-parent household in rural Texas, where his mother worked as a nurse's aide and he was enrolled in one of the first Head Start programs.
