The combined revenues of the two positions made Henry of Winchester the second-richest man in England after the king.

Mr. Yang is reported to be China's second-richest man.

Warren Buffett, America's second-richest man (after somebody whose name I've forgotten), has written that he's suspicious of anyone who talks of learning from his own mistakes.

Alvin O. Otis, who had made $700 billion and was the second-richest man in Moline, Ill., took a world cruise aboard his personal ocean liner.

Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation.

Yang Bin, an orchid tycoon once ranked as the second-richest man in China, went on trial for commercial crimes.

The second-richest man in the world known as "The Collector" has hired the Specialist to get the statue, hoping to foresee future stocks and prices.

At his death he was Denmark's second-richest man after Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, according to Forbes List of Billionaires 2007.

The nation's second-richest man, Warren Buffett, plans to leave a fortune to his pet cause, population control, when he dies.

(Now he's only the world's second-richest man; No. 1 is the Sultan of Brunei.)