Example sentences of "for the first two [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication . |
| 2 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Use the graft for the first two or three feet ( 60 to 90 centimetres ) of the hole and thereafter use the long spade . |
| 6 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 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 | This can be incorporated into the merger agreement , with effect for the first two or three years after the merger . |
| 9 | mean , presumably it 's quite easy for the first two or three weeks , it 's after , after a couple of months that er life gets more difficult . |
| 10 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |