excessive vs second string

excessive

adj
  • Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate. 

second string

adj
  • Not as good; of a lower quality or condition. 

noun
  • A unit of players which is considered to have a secondary level of talent and which usually plays after the first string. 

How often have the words excessive and second string occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )