Example sentences of "[verb] for the first two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 2 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 3 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 4 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 5 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 6 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 7 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 8 | I suggest the patient takes it on waking for the first two or three days and then experiments either with increasing the amount or by introducing an extra dose in the afternoon or evening . |
| 9 | The project , now scheduled for the first two weekends of June , went into the May issue of Spokesworker and was given front page treatment in the main newsletter , which also came out in May . |
| 10 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 11 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 12 | Initial laser treatment had been successful and bowel symptoms were well controlled for the first two months after radiotherapy in all patients . |
| 13 | In the autumn of 1870 " a Diamond Lamp with oil " was purchased and it was " to be kept burning for the first two nights after the receipt of papers and Mr John Slater was granted " the use of the Reading Room for one night in the week to have exercises in music . " |
| 14 | The UK government argues that EIAs are not required for the first two schemes , on the grounds that they date from before July 1988 , when the relevant EC directive came into force . |