11.   It was the first attempt in history to assemble representatives of all the major regions.

12.   Last year was the first real attempt to recognise the new energy around in the visual arts.

13.   Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons.

14.   She passed her driving test at the first attempt.

15.   She picked her first attempt at a letter out of the wastebasket, from among scraps of cloth.

16.   Taking an absurdly long run-up, I scuffed my first attempt so badly that it trickled past the left-hand post.

17.   The first attempts failed, but with collaboration from Hebb and others, successful adaptations were made.

18.   The first attempts to understand the quantised Hall effect were in terms of this ideal model.