Example sentences of "the [noun] for the [num ord] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five aircraft and three hundred american airforcemen will be at the base for the next two weeks . |
| 2 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 3 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 4 | You will probably need to loosen the tension for the last two rows for a really misty effect . |
| 5 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 6 | Here are a few examples from the programme for the next two years : |
| 7 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 8 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 9 | However , King was determined to catch him and he moved into the lead for the next two laps before Joey hit back and with a speed of 110.34mph regained the advantage . |
| 10 | The figures for the first two years are easy as these decisions have already been taken , years four and five are merely projections on current assumptions while the hard decisions have at this stage to be taken for year three . |
| 11 | She defended successfully in 1888 , did not compete in 1889 and 1890 , but returned to challenge successfully in 1891 and retained the title for the next two years . |
| 12 | Sharp was also appointment to be Canada 's delegate to the IRFB for the next two years . |
| 13 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 14 | While Whitaker was manoeuvring ‘ Carlisle ’ to the far end of the train for the last two miles to Bishop 's Castle , Sam would be loading the luggage . |
| 15 | The encouraging February figure took the total for the first two months of 1993 to 291,923 — nearly 11pc up on the January-February , 1992 , figure of 263,096 . |
| 16 | I worked in the garden for the first two days . |
| 17 | The icy missiles bombarded the runners for the first two miles , and when the aerial attack subsided Johnson pulled away at the head of the field , and only Steve Webb , of Blaydon Harriers , responded to the quickening pace . |
| 18 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 19 | The Garden of Remembrance , at which renovation work has recently been completed , will be open to the public for the next two weeks so they can place their own tributes . |
| 20 | Carrington watched the sea for the first two hours , enchanted by the Scandinavian night , then went to sleep . |
| 21 | Olivetti says it does n't expect its newest machine , MIPS ' ARCsystems or the rest of the ACE consortium 's MIPS offerings to have any real impact on the market for the next two or three years , leaving Intel Corp 's dynasty intact for some time to come . |
| 22 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 23 | Use the graft for the first two or three feet ( 60 to 90 centimetres ) of the hole and thereafter use the long spade . |
| 24 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |