Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the first [noun] " 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 | Twenty two months after the first signs of bowel symptoms , 20 months after the first complaint of knee pain , and 14 months after finishing steroid treatment both knees were clinically normal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | For the first two years of the First World War there was no conscription in Britain , but there was machinery to recruit volunteers . |
| 22 | There is no intention to review the proposals that have been announced , but there are at least two years before the first amalgamations and if military circumstances change , there is time for a reassessment of present plans . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Salary will be on the RA1B scale ( £ –£ per annum ) with USS and the position is for two years in the first instance . |
| 26 | The appointment will be for two years in the first instance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Two days after the first call he rang again . |