Selecting first # of elements with jQuery
<p>I have the following HTML:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;input id="1" type="checkbox"/&gt;
&lt;label for="1"&gt;bla bla&lt;/label&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;input id="2" type="checkbox"/&gt;
&lt;label for="2"&gt;hello hello&lt;/label&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
.
.
.
etc...
</code></pre>

<p>Is there a way to select first few inputs here in one call?  In other words, I don't want to select them all and loop through each one.  Just 1 statement to select, for example, first 3.
Thanks!</p>
