Sentence examples for second rate that from inspiring English sources

With waters approaching the 1.25 million cubic feet (35,000 cubic metres) per second rate that indicated a possible risk to the cities, on May 9 the Bonnet Carre Spillway, approximately 30 miles (50 km) north of New Orleans, was partially opened, allowing overflow into Lake Pontchartrain, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico.

There are fabulous institutions with relatively low test-score averages that are absolutely first rate, that take students from point A to point Z".

There is also a fourth rating that appears frequently in the logs: information reports.

Paul Livert Putting Human Faces On Bowling Balls At age 5, Paul Livert performed a drum-and-tap-dance routine in theaters that were so fourth-rate that the vaudevillians sneeringly called them toilets.

To read a well-regarded writer and to find the conviction growing in yourself that he or she is second- or third-rate, that, in Bob Dylan's words, "you can say it just as good", is both encouraging and, if acted upon, a niggling form of ambition.

Kimball writes: "The vast majority of gluten-free recipes either do not work or the results are so second-rate that you would be hard-pressed to eat them".

I think it's absolutely first-rate that Gingrich didn't demand understanding from God, given that this is all very hard to understand.

We were surprised to find that single-turnover cleavage of MCns occurred with a second-order rate that was only 1/30th of that of MCsp.

They should not be made to feel these soldiers were somehow second rate and that they don't deserve a letter of condolence.

Second, the rate that these chromosomes are observed to be oriented at metaphase I arrest is close to the meiotic segregation rates inferred genetically.

Second, rating scales that are anchored with graded behavioral descriptions likely have greater reliability than those asking for binary classifications.