Example sentences of "two [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 2 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 3 | The first-year course is designed to take students from scratch to a level at which they can cope with simple Sanskrit texts ( the two texts studied in the first year are the Pancatantra , an ancient collection of humorous fables , and the Bhagavad Gita , the most revered of Hindu religious texts ) . |
| 4 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 5 | In fact , once you take into account all the set-up costs of the two endowments needed for the first method , having a joint policy becomes quite competitive , as well as offering extra peace of mind . |