penultimately

adv

1. (not-comparable)Next to the last in order.

   “2007 Aug 28, Jon Henley in The Guardian, Diary. Our sincere thanks, penultimately, to the countless hordes of you who, during our absence, sent in...”

   “Tied to a BBC 2 Scotland documentary, Scotland's Top Ten Battlegrounds on Tuesday night, the BBC poll ranked the issues in order from the economy – given a weighting of 1.38, to pensions (0.63), then welfare (0.57), Scotland and the UK (0.51), currency (0.4), immigration (0.39), energy (0.35), defence (0.33), to penultimately Scotland and the EU (0.31), with broadcasting (poor BBC) trailing a very poor last, with a rating of merely 0.05.”