31.   He opened the second half by making his first three.

32.   He walked the first three, then turned and gave me a nod.

33.   His first three this year had come in games that his old teammate with the Mets, Dwight Gooden, had started.

34.   I think I need to confess at this juncture that I was asked to serve on the first three commissions, each of which endorsed cameras in courts.

35.   I had enjoyed the first three, but had read the latter two while taking enough painkillers to levitate a horse.

36.   I think they are going to be hard pressed to knock him out of the first three.

37.   In a stretch of four consecutive home games, TCU has played down-to-the-wire football in each outing, winning the first three.

38.   In October, four years after the law was signed by former President Bush, the first three of five commissioners were confirmed by the Senate.

39.   In the first three, each had a victory and there was a tie.

40.   In the cases of the first three, he settled for par, which is never bad at Augusta National.