21.   About the same time, Hewlett-Packard came up with its first scalable language, called HPL, which hewed to the TrueType standard.

22.   After all, before seventh-grade teachers got hold of it, poetry was our first language, our history and even our music.

23.   But if you really look at it, what was the first European language that was spoken in this hemisphere.

24.   But while the children spoke English, their wily parents used the first language to keep things from them.

25.   By contrast, she would gladly greet a visiting Sorbonne student in French, which, because her mother was French, was the first language she learned.

26.   Campbell is sensitive to the perception that he relates best to older players and to those who speak English as a first language.

27.   Centuries of suppression by the English nearly extinguished the Gaelic tongue, but it is still spoken as a first language in rural areas of western Ireland.

28.   Controllers also express frustration that English often is not the first language of many student pilots.

29.   Despite their Sicilian forebears, the von Rezzoris spoke German as their first language.

30.   English was not his first language, but he used it like a small, pointed, elegant weapon.