Consider the stunning focus of Serena Williams as she stormed through the women's bracket, surrendering 17 games in six matches, defeating the world number one and two former world number ones.
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In each country, Sodexho garnered for itself the number one or number two position, running neck-and-neck with U.K.-based Compass Group.
At the height of the disco craze, the Bee Gees were number one and number two with "Night Fever" and that other song that just wouldn't die.
Of course, everyone knows that it is better to be number one than number two, but the Wallet Allocation Rule makes it possible to calculate precisely what this impact is.
They have played each other the last few years, but not ranked number one and number two, with Texas the defending champion, and Ohio State, the team many people think will succeed it as champion.
Number one or two in all its markets, CAE serves airlines and militaries globally.
Is it necessary to choose the number one and two teams the way they do?
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It is the number one or two player in most of the largest markets.
Like Jack Welch, the fomer boss of General Electric, Mr Kozlowski claims only to want the number one or two spot.
The last Stanley Cup pitted teams from the number one and two television markets and Los Angeles has the champion.
Prior to the BCS, there were merely bowl games with traditional conference alignments and no matchup between the number one and two teams.
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The number one and two spots are held by two banks that snatched up rival wealth management firms in the heat of the financial crisis.
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The United States and Canada are the number one and two most desired countries for people from Asia, according to this recent Gallup survey.
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Google doesn't charge for any of these services, and few of them rank number one or two or even three in their categories, but they expand Google's inventory of advertising space.
The groups formed by the second series of Popstars, Girls Aloud and One True Voice, entered the singles chart at number one and two respectively on Sunday, but with disappointing sales figures.
Woods and Mickelson, world number one and two, have been paired together for the final round but all eyes will be on 48-year-old Perry, who has the chance to rewrite the record books.
Soon after, he exited the Houston, San Antonio, Memphis and Nashville markets, following the edict drilled into him at GE: that a company should be number one or two--or be able to reach that goal--in every market.
Overall, the entire picture has improved: the number one and two teams as determined by an agreed upon formula meet each other to crown a champion, ratings and popularity are up, and access is improved for many.
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This vindicates the strategy, followed most famously by Mr Welch at General Electric (but by others too, including Emerson), to aim for the number one or two slot in each business sector or not to be there at all.
While LSU and Alabama ended up ranked number one and two respectively in the final 2011 BCS poll, in the APR Rankings of BCS teams, they would fall back to four (966) and five (963) respectively, behind Clemson (977), Stanford (977), and Wisconsin (967).
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Company number one sues company number two for patent infringement.
He has a great character, he doesn't train like a number one, he always trains like a number two that wants to become number one, something that is very important to us.
World number four Williams has beaten Sharapova, current world number one Victoria Azarenka and two other former world number ones in Caroline Wozniacki and Jelena Jankovic on her way to the title, dropping only 17 games in six matches.
The Elton John cover was number one in the Irish single charts for two weeks and narrowly missed out on the Christmas number one position.
Number one is a master cleanse, number two is a Ratatouille, which I'm not sure why.
For the first time in ten years, the number one-ranked team meets the number two-ranked team in a regular season game.
Globally, it remains a solid number one, or at least a number two, in digital TVs, LCD screens, flash memory, DRAM and other products.
The world number two had one eagle and four birdies as he moved to 13 under.
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