Repeating numbered Examples

[Manolo Martínez]

Hello,

I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would 
like to repeat one example later in the text, like this

***
Some text

(1) The first example
(2) The second example

Some more text

(3) The third example
(1) The first example
***

I have found no easy way to do this. Any ideas?

Cheers.
Manolo