21.   Rob Strachan stresses that the water vole survey is the first of its kind.

22.   Shortly after joining his or her team, our new employee will experience the first of many team meetings.

23.   Sir Edmond had been the first of the Goldsmiths to found a School but his example was soon followed.

24.   That, then, is the first of my three personal anecdotes.

25.   The first of its kind between Washington and Pyongyang, the meeting of foreign ministers was the message.

26.   The first of many refugees have finally returned home from a long exile in Senegal.

27.   The first of the debt-reduction deals came before the Brady plan was announced and, indeed, paved the way for it.

28.   The first of the major considerations by the Council Fathers was given to the Liturgy and its music, as well as sacred art.

29.   The first of the sirens sounded distantly and she ran to the kitchen, gathering up her belongings with hands that shook.

30.   The first of them is to use his wits.