Example sentences of "[vb -s] the first two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 2 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 3 | Goldney garden , which appears to have developed to the whims and fancies of the women in the family , has the first two characteristics but not the last . |
| 4 | While the report describes the first two options as the most far-reaching and effective in the long term , it acknowledges that they would cause severe economic strains ( because of the dependence of the local economies on irrigated crops ) and that the required infrastructural improvements would be very expensive . |
| 5 | The second flower shows the first two layers of petals from a typical Irish crochet rose . |
| 6 | As the Dip.HE mainly forms the first two years of BEd . |
| 7 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 8 | Example 26 gives the first two sentences from the Andante of Mozart 's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik : Notice how the second sentence uses material — semiquaver runs and larger leaps — not found in the first . |
| 9 | Pivoting in P2/T2 gives the first two rows of P2/T3 . |
| 10 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 11 | First , it omits the first two years of the Thatcher government 's record , when output fell 3.5 per cent . |
| 12 | Phase I occupies the first two years which are divided into six normal academic terms . |
| 13 | But if the first byte has a ( hexadecimal ) value of 9C , 9D , 9E , 9F , or B2 , then a 4-byte " 5 " format instruction is indicated , and in this format the operation code field occupies the first two bytes . |
| 14 | Internal evidence in regard to such details as the use of motor cars or the social idiom and manners of the characters suggests the first two decades of our century but the wise reader will accept a certain anonymity as an integral part of the fiction . |
| 15 | The Olympic silver medallist faces the first two finishers in the 1500 metres at the UK Championships , Enfield 's Steve Crabb and Paul Larkins of Nene Valley Harriers . |