Sentence examples for second most conspicuous from inspiring English sources

The fog cleared and Hugo produced an alpenhorn, Switzerland's second most conspicuous icon after the Matterhorn, and blew a haunting air called "Luzerner," which he aimed at a dozen hikers nearly invisible on a path 2,000 feet above.

The third and most conspicuous turns on finite-risk reinsurance provided by General Re to AIG in 2000 and 2001 at the latter's urging.

The first and most conspicuous step consists in constructing a revised version of the LSBCI.

First, the most conspicuous aspect of social behavior in Fmr1 knockout mice may be that differences from wild-type mice are fairly subtle.

Titled "Ten Artists/Ten Materials," it is at the Bjorn Ressle Gallery, a bright and narrow high-ceilinged second-floor compartment whose most conspicuous feature is its hideous brown wall-to-wall carpet.

He earned the first Yeomanry VC for "most conspicuous bravery in rescuing a comrade under heavy fire".

The show attracted two hundred and fifteen thousand visitors, more than twice as many as the museum had projected, and was praised by critics as a revelatory opportunity to experience sixteenth-century consumption at its most conspicuous.

Though it is often the digital holdouts that are most conspicuous — including first-run episodes of two shows produced by Warner Brothers, "ER" (on NBC) and "Two and a Half Men" (on CBS) — it is worth noting the enormous amount of ground the networks and studios have traversed in a relatively short period of time.

This change became most conspicuous after the first World Cup competition was played, in Uruguay, in 1930.

In order to do this, we first isolated using laser microdisection the most conspicuous histological constituents and purified from them total RNA, that was used to determine by RT-PCR the gene expression kinetics of the most important growth bone factors.

Metallurgical operations (smelting, calcination, gravity concentration) carried out during the late nineteenth century–early twentieth century induced significant land transformation, and the most conspicuous wastes of this period consist of a chaotic piling of 'old' tailing deposits.