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She hit the headlines in 2011 when she unexpectedly came second in a by-election in the neighbouring Labour stronghold of Barnsley.
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She came second in the festival's "Miss Koovagam" beauty contest.
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Royal, who would be France's first female president if she were elected, came in second with just under 26 percent.
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Mr. SOSNIK: Well, I think, obviously, Hillary Clinton had a great night last night, and she not only came back, but she won, as opposed to her husband who came back and finished second in 1992.
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The Vendee, which is run every four years, catapulted Dame Ellen MacArthur to fame in 2001 when she came second.
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She came within a second of a medal in the women's lightweight sculls but had to make do with fourth place.
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Perhaps she had already passed out by the time he stood up, or perhaps she came in after he left, through a second doorway, from the living room.
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Her second hospitalization came in early 2007, when she was struck with a desire to die while grocery shopping.
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The Fifinator, as she's known by her thousands of Facebook fans, won the group last year and came in second this time.
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"I threw myself on the floor and took my friends with me, and then I went to a corner and put a table in front of me, and he came again a second time and shot again, " she said.
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But her second win for Revolutionary Road - in which she plays a frustrated housewife living in 1950s America - came as a surprise.
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Clinton came in second, with 27 percent of the vote, most of it cast by white voters whom she shared about evenly with former North Carolina Sen.
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