21.   Their executions were the first this year.

22.   There was no word on damage or casualties from the air raid, the first this year.

23.   They would serve their first years in a juvenile correction facility until they become of age.

24.   These petitions are the first this year to break the silence that followed those arrests.

25.   They are the ones who are really responsible for those very first years when you nurture children at home.

26.   The value of the latest seizures of smuggled antiques -- the first this year, has yet to be appraised.

27.   It was the first this year but followed two similar explosions in May and August last year.