1.   A Paris court last week sentenced David Frydman to a two-month suspended sentence on the first count.

2.   After the first count, Ahmanson announced it had gotten enough support from shareholders, but Great Western was skeptical and accused the thrift of double-counting votes.

3.   Census takers then turn the difference between the first count and the second count into a mathematical formula and apply it to the city as a whole.

4.   He was right on the first count, wrong on the second.

5.   Her son, Sandile, watches as the first full count of all South Africans is conducted.

6.   On the first count, Mackey says he remains dry and gladly would submit to drug testing if a prospective employee insisted.

7.   On the first few counts, which were undecided, most jurors gave Symington a break, Witter said.

8.   Only now, however, is the city working on its first count of those with limited literacy.

9.   Such votes would be missed in the first count, Gardner said, and then confound election officials attempting to conduct a recount.