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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.07.21

D.C.United won the first two M.L.S.championships.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

"His flaws,I think, in the first two movies earlier on the story were caused by his dislocation from reality."

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

This year alone, since the first of January, we have had more than 70 incidents, just in the first two-and-a-half months of this year."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Fox,now 24, became a pop culture phenomenon after co-starring in the first two "Transformer" action films and says she is at home in genre.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

Driver Steve Holcomb, the reigning world champion, surged to the lead after the first two runs Friday, setting a Whistler Sliding Track record in the process.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

Rodin said the first two awards will be given out this year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

The guest list for the dinner provided a sample. Among those seated in the State Dining Room were the first two Muslims elected to the U.S.Congress Keith Ellison and Andre Carson.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02