Example sentences of "for the first two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |
| 2 | For the first two years , however , this strategy lay in ruins because of the consequences of accepting the ‘ catching-up ’ comparability awards of the Clegg Commission for public-sector pay . |
| 3 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 4 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |
| 7 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 12 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 13 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 14 | Jockey plans remain fluid , to say the least , for the first two Classics , but Sangster , like his Manton trainer , is quite relaxed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | First and second gear are nearly impossible to shift up and down , or from third to second for the first two miles in winter . |
| 17 | For the first two years of the First World War there was no conscription in Britain , but there was machinery to recruit volunteers . |
| 18 | For the first two years , the consortium will undertake a feasibility study into the best location for a geothermal demonstration project . |
| 19 | For the first two nights Martha peered under the bed for duppies and enjoyed having no one to forbid her ; by the third evening she forgot . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 23 | For the first two hundred years of the Roman influence in Britain , the bodies of the dead were usually cremated , but by the third century they were burying them instead . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ian ( 4.11 ) filled in evenly in rows from the top , using all yellow pegs for the first two rows then haphazardly using the remaining colours for the rest of the rows . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Use the graft for the first two or three feet ( 60 to 90 centimetres ) of the hole and thereafter use the long spade . |