Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the first two " in BNC.

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1 Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) .
2 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 ) .
3 Do the new words figure in exercises ? 13 Look at the first two lessons for phonological features .
4 The first is his education : we find in the first two books of The Prelude those experiences which Wordsworth regarded as formative .
5 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
6 In addition , opportunities exist during the first two years of the course to study further subjects which can include an additional Community language if students so wish .
7 Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years .
8 Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings .
9 When they are known , then unc which follow from the first two of Equations ( 1 ) .
10 ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’
11 How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ?
12 In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places .
13 This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram .
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