Sentence examples for was second rate from inspiring English sources

The party also suggested that Ucas be renamed to remove any implication that clearing was second rate.

When David Cameron told the Today programme in January that the NHS was "second rate", he had to apologise sharpish.

Declaring that Samsung was "second rate" by global standards, he called on each employee "to change everything but your family".

For me the decision was not a difficult one--on the one hand I was not confident in signing up for several years of work a very long way from family and friends in a country about which I had heard, at best, mixed reports, and on the other my experience of conferences and collaborations in Europe had comprehensively destroyed any idea that European science was second rate.

I have news for Stanley Kurtz, the student reporter, and everyone else: The Case for Marriage was second rate and not worth publishing.

Congressman Daniel had become convinced that the U.S. military establishment was not interested in special operations, that the country's capability in this area was second rate, and that SOF operational command and control was an endemic problem.

Granted, the mozzarella was first rate.

The Tchaikovsky was first rate.

Not all of it was first rate.

Service was first rate, as was most of the food.

Carrot cake, with carrots you could see, was first rate.