I'm trying to select 2 of 3 existing `a` elements from a repeating HTML structure and having trouble designing an efficient jquery selector.

Here is the markup. I'm trying to select `Link 1`, `Link 2`, but not `Link 3`. Note that the entire HTML structure (`div.container`) could occur multiple times. If it does, I need Link 1 and Link 2 from all `container` classes. 

**NOTE 1: I cannot modify the markup.**

**NOTE 2: I'd prefer the solution be completely selector based (and avoid calls to `.find()`, etc., as this selector has to be combined with another selector outside the scope of this question.**

```
<div class="container">
    <h1>
        <a href="http://www.google.ca">Link 1</a>
    </h1>
    <div>
        <div class="left">
            <p>
                <a href="http://www.google.ca">Link 2</a>
            </p>
        </div>
        <div class="right">
            <a href="http://www.google.ca">Link 3</a>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

```

When a single `container` structure occurs, a simple selector is:

```
$(".container a:lt(2)");

```

However if multiple `container` structures exist, the above only selects Link 1 and Link 2 from the first container.

The below works for one or more `container` structures, but I don't like it. It seems inefficient to setup multiple css path selectors. 

```
$(".container h1 a, .container .left a");

```

In verbose language, I would like to "select all `a` tags within class `container` not contained within class `right`. Is this possible? Or is the above selector using 2 CSS paths the best option.

[Test Fiddle.](http://jsfiddle.net/m2Tgr/)