31.   It was the first incident to raise the spectre of a widening conflict.

32.   It was the first such incident in more than a week.

33.   Nine months after Knight arrived in Texas, he has finally had his first unsavory incident.

34.   Officer Bernadette Rainy, a police spokeswoman, said the student told his mother about the first incident, and she urged her son to complain to Quartararo.

35.   Police and animal control officials are investigating whether the dogs in the first incident may have had links to gangs.

36.   Series champion Jack Sprague, who won the title by starting the race, went out fighting in the first major incident of the race.

37.   Since the first incident Sunday, Scottsdale police have seen an increase in calls from worried residents reporting coyote sightings.

38.   That incident remains under investigation, but Board of Education officials said they were convinced that the students in the first incident were not involved in the second.

39.   The Budapest authorities have been much more aggressive since the first incident in closing down overchargers.

40.   The festival poisoning was not the first incident of random cyanide poisoning in Japan.