Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 2 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 3 | First they equalised in injury time , when Joseph tripped Johnson to concede a penalty , then they scored twice in two minutes in the first period of extra-time to win 3-1 . |
| 4 | No Sharmans subscribed to Leapor 's poems , although a Margaret Sherman subscribed for two copies of the first volume . |
| 5 | Having distributed his favours fairly equally between these two groups in the first half of 1959 Castro then abruptly and decisively abandoned his on-the-fence posture in favour of the ‘ radical ’ position . |
| 6 | The Sappers achieved their triumph with two goals in the first half , by Lockwood ( 11 minutes ) and Alex Nangle ( 31 minutes ) . |
| 7 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 8 | ‘ We are funding Two Castles in the first place . |
| 9 | The brilliant and tuneful overture is full of the joy of life — but within two months of the first performance , Weber died in London at the age of 39 . |
| 10 | Shares have hit their highest levels in two months on the first trading day since Britain joined the European Exchange Mechanism . |
| 11 | The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g . |
| 12 | It was also agreed that both sides " shall jointly make efforts to adopt documents for the verification of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula within two months after the first meeting of the North-South Joint Nuclear Control Committee " , and that inspections would begin within 20 days of the adoption of these documents . |
| 13 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 14 | The main concrete results of the summit were ( i ) the signing of an agreement banning the production of chemical weapons ; ( ii ) a set of accords normalizing commercial relations between the two countries for the first time in 50 years ; and ( iii ) a provisional treaty on nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | Er , I think the main ones really , are on page one o six the final two lines of the first paragraph which says the two vacant blocks now really , there 's four it should just read , and does now read the demolition of the vacant blocks . |
| 16 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 17 | In each of the four years , students spend some time teaching in primary schools ( two weeks in the first year , four weeks in the second , four weeks in the third , and eight weeks in the fourth ) under the supervision of school and University staff . |
| 18 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 19 | Two weeks after the first announcement , Phar-Mor filed a damages claim against its auditors , Coopers , alleging ‘ grossly negligent , intentional or reckless failure to uncover massive fraud ’ . |
| 20 | For the first two years of the First World War there was no conscription in Britain , but there was machinery to recruit volunteers . |
| 21 | The appointment , which will be for two years in the first instance , has been made possible by the University of London 's Academic Initiative Scheme . |
| 22 | The post , which is at research officer level , will be for two years in the first instance , with the possibility of extension , and the salary will be at the appropriate point on the 1A scale ( £ –£18 165 per annum ) with USS . |
| 23 | Salary will be on the RA1B scale ( £ –£ per annum ) with USS and the position is for two years in the first instance . |
| 24 | The appointment will be for two years in the first instance . |
| 25 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 26 | They also suggested that the building , whose 14 columns still stand as a striking landmark of the site , was erected probably in two phases in the first century BC . |
| 27 | The Bristol area had over two inches of rainfall in two days during the first week of January , and that was followed by one of the wettest and stormiest periods for some time . |
| 28 | Two days after the first call he rang again . |
| 29 | Splitting into two teams for the first attempt , Fowler and Jones climbed the incomplete Japanese route up the south ridge but were driven back by poor weather , while Saunders and Sustad attempted the spur . |
| 30 | introduced a new Formula Two in 1967 and that same season saw the birth of the European Formula Two Championships with the first meeting at Snetterton on 24 March when the late Jochen Rindt ( Austria ) won the Guards Trophy over 174.5km ( 108 ) miles . |