1.   First dig out all the perennial weeds.

2.   Flint tools unearthed in the first dig seemed to have been left by nomads.

3.   Frithiof had been trading in fossils for only a few years, and this was his first dig.

4.   On her first dig, Naomi Miller, an archeologist, used a grapefruit knife to scrape away dirt from delicate objects.

5.   To get to the fossils, groups of villagers first dig a hole down several yards into the earth, and then often tunnel laterally hundreds of yards.

6.   Three cases were uncovered with the first dig of the spade.

7.   The major daily newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun said rescuers planned to first dig out the car.