1. Habit is a second nature.
2. The workers of this plant/This plant’s workers work in
a night shift.
3. Our students begin to learn a second language in their second
year at college/university (when they become second-year
students).
4. My house is the third from the right. You surely won’t pass
it by. (You surely won’t miss/overlook it.)
5. Mind you, you won’t have a third chance.
6. My friends and collegues have become a second family
to me.
7. I’m afraid you’ll have to retake the exam (to take the exam
again/for a second time).
8. It’s a big city. Its population is over three million.
9. Out of/Of the two brothers Don is the tallest.
10. The scientist made the first, the second, the third and the
fourth experiment and got the same results.
11.I had a cup of tea, then a second and a third (one) and
only after the fourth (one) realized that I was no longer thirsty
(that I had quelled/slaked my thirst).
12. The children entered the hall in twos.
13. Everyone has lived through a first love/has had a first
love.
14. They met at a first night performance.
15. Three years later they had a second son.
16. At the age of fifty David got a second education.
17. A year passed, then another/then a second one, but still
there was no news.
18. No 8 is the third from the right.