Non-greedy grep

With sed you can use a range and quit input at a single completion:

sed '/^182$/p;//,/^ABC$/!d;/^ABC$/!d;q'

Similarly w/ GNU grep you can split the input between two greps:

{ grep -nxF -m1 182; grep -nxF -m1 ABC; } <<\IN
123
XXY
214
ABC
182
558
ABC
856
ABC
IN

... which prints...

5:182
2:ABC

... to signify that the first grep found a -Fixed-string literal, -xentire-line 182 match 5 lines from the start of its read, and the second found a similarly typed ABC match 2 lines from the start of its read - or 2 lines after the first grep quit reading at line 5.

From man grep:

-m NUM, --max-count=NUM
          Stop  reading  a  file  after  NUM  matching
          lines.   If the input is standard input from
          a regular file, and NUM matching  lines  are
          output, grep ensures that the standard input
          is  positioned  to  just  after   the   last
          matching  line before exiting, regardless of
          the  presence  of  trailing  context  lines.
          This  enables  a calling process to resume a
          search. 

I used a here-document for the sake of reproducible demonstration, but you should probably do:

{ grep ...; grep ...; } </path/to/log.file

It will also work with other shell compound-command constructs like:

for p in 182 ABC; do grep -nxFm1 "$p"; done </path/to/log.file

You can pipe grep result to head.

Note, that in order to ensure stopping after Nth match, you need to using stdbuf to make sure grep don't buffer its output:

stdbuf -oL grep -rl 'pattern' * | head -n10

As soon as head consumed 10 lines, it terminated and grep will receive SIGPIPE because it still output something to pipe while head was gone.

This assumed that no file names contain newline.