Examples of runner-up

• To continue the musical metaphor, whereas the runner-up schemes are definitely compositions, this scheme is more like an improvization - with occasional wrong notes.

• Only when a candidate is unable to take advantage of the runner-up rebound phenomenon should she retire.

• The distance from the input vector to the winner and runner-up vectors is approximately the same.

• This brute fact, that the probability of winning a seat is greater at higher district magnitudes, also explains why the runner-up rebound phenomenon is stronger in higher district magnitudes.

• What better solution could there be than to transfer the franchise to the runner-up?

• They chose the age of fourteen, and the runner-up in ages to fourteen was thirteen.

• If you know something of him which the law subsequently says is a disqualification, the runner-up comes in.

• My plea is that it should be a good second, a real runner-up, and not some distance behind.