Everything worked as planned. Everyone expected the third moon-landing flight, Apollo Thirteen, would go as well as the first two.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

About two hundred farmers signed up for the insurance within the first two weeks that it was being offered there.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

About two thousand people visited the Public Observatory Project in the first two weeks after it opened.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Twenty years later, he completed a device that was smaller than the first two, and weighed less.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The novel re-visits the character of Robert Langdon, the Harvard University professor from Brown's first two books.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

The word HeLa uses the first two letters of her first and last name.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Only one major league pitcher had more strike outs in his first two appearances.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Six countries took part during the first two years: Brazil,Egypt,Indonesia,Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The attempt was made on December sixth, soon after the first two Sputnik launches.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The Marx Brothers' first two movies were "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Most medical students spend their first two years mainly in classroom study.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Strasburg has struck out twenty-two hitters in his first two wins.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

It sold over a million copies in its first two months.

VOA: special.2010.02.26