Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 3 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 4 | ( Currently students gaining a baccalauréat were guaranteed a university place ; however , 50 per cent of students dropped out in the first two years . ) |
| 5 | Over 60 turned up at the first two sessions at the town 's Southlands Centre . |
| 6 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 7 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 8 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 9 | The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds . |
| 10 | The importance of the parallel market is touched on in the first two sources above , and also in Podolski ( 1986 , Chs 5.2 and 6.2 ) , Llewellyn et al. |
| 11 | So I will take the blame for that one , but why did n't the machine tuck up on the first two garments of the same size ? |
| 12 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 13 | Moore 's England props , Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn , belatedly return for Wasps , at home to Blackheath , after being left out of the first two First Division games . |
| 14 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 15 | The highlight of the course for many pupils is definitely the extended project which they carry out over the first two terms , tapping the wide network of apparatus available in the Department for work at this level . |
| 16 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
| 17 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 18 | And , following on from the first two , how are the Arab societies in whose region the war is being fought affected ? |