The phrase "the highest and second" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when comparing two items or rankings within a group. For example: - The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa, followed by the second tallest, the Shanghai Tower. - In the Olympics, the United States won the most gold medals, with China coming in second. - The highest and second highest mountain peaks in the world are Mount Everest and K2, respectively.
The public vote will be open from 00 01 on 15 November 2016 until 23:59 on 2 December 2016 inclusive and the winner, and runner up and third place shall be the entries of the top five which receive the highest, and second highest and third highest number of public votes respectively during that period.
R600 and R600a have the highest and second highest CPRmA.
Current poverty estimates show that out of the ten regions in Ghana, Upper West Region and Eastern Region have the highest and second lowest poverty estimates (Table 1).
The emotion categories with the highest and second highest percentages of voters were considered as the primary and secondary emotion categories of the word.
The number of plots falling in the actual outbreak matched the number of plots with the highest and second highest simulation frequency in nine and three of the verification runs, respectively.
TASP0410457 and TASP0434988 were selected as candidates for a PET radioligand, because they exhibited rapid entry into the brain followed by fast washout (Fig. 2a, b) and the highest and second highest uptakes, respectively, in the forebrain versus the cerebellum.
The large differences between the highest and second-highest quartile of expressed transcripts suggests that this effect is non-linear as transcript abundance increases in the sample.
In the Seveso study, Bertazzi et al. (2001) calculated the SMRs in the highest and second-highest exposure zones.
Factor loadings were required to be >0.50 and the difference between the highest and second-highest factor loading at least 0.30.
We searched for homology between the 15,203 cdBES ordered along the 16 walnut (Jr) physical maps and genes on the grape (Vv), poplar (Pt), apple (Md), M. truncatula (Mt), cucumber (Cs), and strawberry (Fv) pseudomolecules, recording separately the locations of genes with the highest and second-highest homology in the pseudomolecules (Additional file 4).
You point to two recent Liberal leaders – Brendan Nelson represented Bradfield and Malcolm Turnbull represents Wentworth, electorates with respectively the highest and sixth highest median weekly household incomes.
