Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the first two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party leader , Július Sólnes , took responsibility for the first two , while the deputy leader , Oli Th . |
| 2 | Eurosatellite , an industrial consortium based in Munich , is building the French satellite , plus two others — one for West Germany and one that will act as a ‘ spare ’ in orbit for the first two . |
| 3 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 4 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 5 | This can be incorporated into the merger agreement , with effect for the first two or three years after the merger . |
| 6 | By the same token try to avoid bright natural light for the first two to three days after the flight at times corresponding to 5 to 11 o'clock in the morning on old time as this will tend to advance your body clock . |
| 7 | One of the most controversial proposals was the abolition of benefit for the first two days of sickness . |
| 8 | We would increase the public sector borrowing requirement for the first two years before reducing it sharply for the rest of our term of office to balance the books over five years . |
| 9 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |
| 10 | They live with a puppy walker for the first two years . |
| 11 | Just like bees round the Jam Pot FOR the first two weeks no-one came though its doors . |
| 12 | She did five episodes a week for the first two years but then began to ease up after her record career began to take off . |
| 13 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |
| 14 | The package also includes free unemployment insurance for the first two years . |
| 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 | She was evidently a heavy smoker for the first two fingers of her right hand were stained with nicotine , and , now that he looked , the nails were bitten and the cuticles chewed raw . |
| 18 | In December 1986 the permissible concentration of alcohol was set at zero for the first two years of driving . |
| 19 | IRAS will scan the Milky Way for the first two or three months , concluding with passes over the centre of the galaxy — a strong infrared source hidden from optical astronomers by dust . |
| 20 | Also at the LSE , Hella was guaranteed £60 a year for the first two years of her course by Professor Harold Laski , the brother of Elaine Blond 's first husband . |
| 21 | Under one company scheme — which works on the basis that the employee moves into an area of higher cost housing but into a similar property — the company pays half the additional mortgage cost for the first two years from the date of the move . |
| 22 | FREE unemployment cover for the first two years is available with Citibank 's new fixed and capped mortgages . |
| 23 | The first return to be affected by these changes will be the one for the period ending 31 January 1993 : the taxpayer will have to apply the existing system for the first two months , and the new procedures for the final month . |
| 24 | Carrington watched the sea for the first two hours , enchanted by the Scandinavian night , then went to sleep . |
| 25 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 26 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 27 | Use the graft for the first two or three feet ( 60 to 90 centimetres ) of the hole and thereafter use the long spade . |
| 28 | Bob Cowper , the former Australian Test batsman will be the match referee for the first two Tests between England and Pakistan with Clyde Walcott officiating in the other three . |
| 29 | Former Australian batsman Bob Cowper , who made 307 against England at Melbourne in 1965–66 , is to be the ICC referee for the first two Tests between England and Pakistan . |