21.   I had just the right pair of scissors that year, too, my first pair with sharp points.

22.   I remember well standing on the Jay Peak gondola holding my first test pair of extreme sidecut parabolics.

23.   In a second-round series against the Suns, the favored Rockets destroyed their home-court advantage by losing the first pair of games at the Summit.

24.   It was a sport for kids who get their first pair of skates months after they learn to walk.

25.   Last week the Bush campaign launched its first pair of general-election ads.

26.   Little kids are asking for their first pairs of skates.

27.   Mail order is never appropriate for a first pair of lenses.

28.   Lucid learned to walk aboard ship and received her first pair of shoes when the vessel reached Johannesburg, South Africa.

29.   Matthew received his first pair of skates soon after birth.

30.   On a recent trial, the first pair was too loose in the waist and way too long.