Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 2 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 3 | First they equalised in injury time , when Joseph tripped Johnson to concede a penalty , then they scored twice in two minutes in the first period of extra-time to win 3-1 . |
| 4 | No Sharmans subscribed to Leapor 's poems , although a Margaret Sherman subscribed for two copies of the first volume . |
| 5 | Having distributed his favours fairly equally between these two groups in the first half of 1959 Castro then abruptly and decisively abandoned his on-the-fence posture in favour of the ‘ radical ’ position . |
| 6 | The Sappers achieved their triumph with two goals in the first half , by Lockwood ( 11 minutes ) and Alex Nangle ( 31 minutes ) . |
| 7 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 8 | City , whose power struggle has dominated the season 's headlines , continued to struggle on the pitch where they conceded two goals in the first 22 minutes and have now gone nine Premiership games without a win . |
| 9 | The home side sliced through the ice to score two goals in the first 4 minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ We are funding Two Castles in the first place . |
| 11 | The brilliant and tuneful overture is full of the joy of life — but within two months of the first performance , Weber died in London at the age of 39 . |
| 12 | Shares have hit their highest levels in two months on the first trading day since Britain joined the European Exchange Mechanism . |
| 13 | It was also agreed that both sides " shall jointly make efforts to adopt documents for the verification of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula within two months after the first meeting of the North-South Joint Nuclear Control Committee " , and that inspections would begin within 20 days of the adoption of these documents . |
| 14 | Gould launched immediately into the fray , and his first part of the Century appeared less than two months after the first two parts of Lear 's Parrots . |
| 15 | The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g . |
| 16 | Twenty two months after the first signs of bowel symptoms , 20 months after the first complaint of knee pain , and 14 months after finishing steroid treatment both knees were clinically normal . |
| 17 | Faldo won the US Masters in April by holing a 25ft putt on the second extra hole to beat Scott Hoch , who had missed from inside two feet on the first . |
| 18 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 19 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 20 | The main concrete results of the summit were ( i ) the signing of an agreement banning the production of chemical weapons ; ( ii ) a set of accords normalizing commercial relations between the two countries for the first time in 50 years ; and ( iii ) a provisional treaty on nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | Er , I think the main ones really , are on page one o six the final two lines of the first paragraph which says the two vacant blocks now really , there 's four it should just read , and does now read the demolition of the vacant blocks . |
| 22 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 23 | Hunting in pairs : Nottingham flanker Matt Greenwood supports Northampton fullback Ian Hunter , scorer of two tries in the first ‘ test ’ … |
| 24 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 25 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 26 | In each of the four years , students spend some time teaching in primary schools ( two weeks in the first year , four weeks in the second , four weeks in the third , and eight weeks in the fourth ) under the supervision of school and University staff . |
| 27 | Two weeks after the first ever pictures were snatched from Bugatti 's promotional video by Autocar & Motor 's Italian editor Luca Ciferri ( 3 October ) , the first photographs of the car in the flesh have appeared . |
| 28 | Two weeks after the first announcement , Phar-Mor filed a damages claim against its auditors , Coopers , alleging ‘ grossly negligent , intentional or reckless failure to uncover massive fraud ’ . |
| 29 | The amendment , originally moved by Lord Ferrers in the House of Lords , required that if any Commons vote on a matter devolved to Scotland was passed by the votes of Scottish MPs , then a second vote on the matter would have to be taken two weeks after the first . |
| 30 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |