Sentence examples for was first runner up from inspiring English sources

In 1997, he won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business for PhD teaching; in 2003 he was first runner up for the Cheit Award for MBA teaching and won first place for the MBA program in 2005.

Buzzd was first runner up in the Best Business Plan category at Nokia's Mobile Rules! 08 competition.

Office favorite Michele Torres, 53, was first runner up, and 30-year-old Sara Mae Kroeker was second runner up.

We gasped to hear that the beauty Queen (who was third runner up in the 2015 Miss Universe Ghana contest) knows first-hand, having attempted suicide twice when only five and eleven years old.

(Her appraisal turned out to be correct; Ms. Schwartz was first runner-up in the pageant that night).

Liane Angus of the District of Columbia was first runner-up, followed by Tiffany Fallon of Georgia.

She was pretty — she had been crowned Junior Miss of Barre, and was first runner-up in the state beauty pageant.

The new title holder, Brittany Wellsfry, a senior at Wichita Falls High School, was first runner-up to Julia Anderson in July.

Delgado became a celebrity as a teen-ager, when she was first runner-up in the 1990 Miss Venezuela pageant; she went on to become a model and then a soap-opera star.

And "Lion," a fact-based look at a child separated from his home in India — and the big Harvey Weinstein Oscar hopeful — was first runner-up.

Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight," about the Boston Globe's investigation of the Catholic-church abuse scandals of the early 2000s, was named the second runner-up for the People's Choice, while Pan Nalin's Hindi drama "Angry Indian Goddesses" was first runner-up.