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Examples:(in second place) preceded only by...—reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402 (mysterious disappearance is ongoing conspiracy theory)—Baron George Stanton, the second-in-command of the Macartney Mission of 1793—person (first person, second person etc in grammar)—auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family—second year in junior middle school—"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus—candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination—Mianyang prefecture level city in north Sichuan, Sichuan's second city—Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers—second (in a competition)—Second Epistle of Peter (in New Testament)—second place (in a sports contest)—the Arrow (a Hong Kong registered ship involved in historical incident in 1856 used as pretext for the second Opium War)—Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans—come second in a competition—Mianyang prefecture in north Sichuan around Mianyang, Sichuan's second city—first and second tones in modern Mandarin—saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part—Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator— |