1.   John was a substantial magnate but, in terms of land held in hereditary right, not one of the first rank.

2.   This corroborated his own impression that it was of very high caliber indeed, of close to first rank.

3.   While none of these pictures is of the first rank, some are of interest.

4.   And that is hard to get around it, even now that he has become a full-fledged international artist of the first rank.

5.   And there is some irony in the fact that this Cinderella run finally might revalidate his credentials as a coach of the very first rank.

6.   But Analog is making a bid to enter the first rank of DSP suppliers.

7.   But no other movie actor of the first rank traverses the path from silly to serious as regularly as Williams.

8.   For a dance company to be of the first rank, it must possess not only dancers of that caliber but also repertory.

9.   He is also a director of the first rank, whose films go far deeper than their seductive visual beauty.

10.   He departed for Britain, where he remained a star of the first rank.