Ronnie's present was the next-to-last to be opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Secret Thing]

And that was how it came out, for the next-to-last time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

For that matter, nobody wanted to be next-to-last, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Yankee Station]

On our next-to-last flight to locate our ten collared elk.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went.    From Wordnik.com.  [rainandfire Diary Entry] Reference

Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistctke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat & Mouse]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished next-to-last in the Nielsen study.    From Wordnik.com.  [The NFL's Most Popular Team] Reference

We'd been over a lot of the same territory the next-to-last expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

I short-circuited as I read the next-to-last diary entry from the Times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiss the Girls]

"Doesn't look it, but I understand he's on his last or next-to-last tour-".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Warrior]

It's the next-to-last figure which is most interesting: An UNTAC peacekeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Six] Reference

He did not even notice Harold D. Lapin sitting on the aisle in the next-to-last row.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyberbooks]

On Thursday, Mr. Ibrahim placed next-to-last in his heat, too, with a time of 29: 28.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glory of Just Showing Up] Reference

He is at 34 percent, the lowest rating ever for a president going into his next-to-last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2007] Reference

The surface of the next-to-last lens was pitted; the Baratol had cooled too fast after casting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

On the next-to-last morning of their survey, Ben found gold nuggets in a brash mountain stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

“You had a mistake about me in your next-to-last ‘Letter from Los Angeles,’  ” she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Faces of Evil] Reference

One of the mares bruised her foot on the rough gravel of the next-to-last pass we had to traverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Horses For The King]

In the next-to-last panel one fat woman said, "We've been waiting so long my butt's gone to sleep.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Mornings]

But in his next-to-last destination on the 16-stop, 36-hour "Marathon for the Middle Class" tour, Edward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Blake: Edwards: I'm Passionate - They're Not] Reference

On the next-to-last day of their four-day mission, the vets stopped by a house to check on a female elephant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in Laos] Reference

The U.S. (12 percent) ranks next-to-last, behind France (10 percent), in union membership among the workforce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: Labor Day Report Card: A Mixed Bag for American Workers] Reference

So, if we set aside the possibility of an upset in the Potomac primary, Wisconsin becames Hillarys next-to-last chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Nearly Half Reporting, Obama Vaults To Big Lead In Maine] Reference

"I am so desperately hoping that the 1960-62 journal exists -- that if he hid the last one, hehid the next-to-last one, too.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Back in 1996, before his next-to-last season, Robinson was quoted in the Grambling campus newspaper, The Gramblinite, saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denny Dressman: Bobby Bowden Following in the Reluctant Footsteps of Eddie Robinson] Reference

"I am so desperately hoping that the 1960-62 journal exists -- that if he hid the last one, he hid the next-to-last one, too.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rethinking A Marriage From Hell] Reference

He was back in the cold white room with the smells, and today, his next-to-last day, there was a new smell, like roasted pork.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

A water main break at NASA's spaceport put launch preparations on temporary hold Wednesday for the next-to-last shuttle flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Main Break At Space Center Stalls Shuttle] Reference

And on the next-to-last track, "Willing to Love Again," it gives him the grace to admit he isn't always such a dreamboat himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hayes Carll: Rowdy Rock Finds A Sensitive Side] Reference

The state ranked dead last among major states and next-to-last in the South in education, health care, and programs for the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Moyers: The Texas Observer at 50] Reference

As things turned out, Ms. Hussain came in next-to-last in her 50-meter swim Friday evening, and didn't succeed in bettering her best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glory of Just Showing Up] Reference

Unbidden, unwanted, memory returned of the next-to-last time he had dared let himself hold Callandor, images floating beyond the Void.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

It all started when "" Cool Keesh '' Sales, a 6-foot senior, ripped her tendon in the Huskies 'next-to-last game of the regular season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Shot Or Foul Play?] Reference

On the next-to-last play of the game, Parker had wide receiver Jaron Brown wide open in the end zone but led him too far with the pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Whisker Away] Reference

There's no particular reason for where it's going to be located, which is in the next-to-last row, between Senators Bingaman and Kerry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2001] Reference

Smith missed the regular season finale last season after suffering a broken bone in his left arm in the next-to-last game of the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panthers' Steve Smith suffers broken arm] Reference