1.   The first measurement was made after two weeks without any treatment.

2.   Eight hours after injection, integrated postprandial CCK release was not significantly different compared with the first measurement, without treatment.

3.   But the magnetometer should be able to get its first measurements of the Martian magnetic field, if there is one.

4.   By enhancing the sensitivity of the instrument, he helped obtain the first precise measurements of the magnitudes and colors of faint stars, clusters and galaxies.

5.   In all cases, the remeasurement found the tank to be either the same size or larger than the first measurement.

6.   Now, researchers with the British Antarctic Survey and other institutions have produced the first extensive measurements of krill abundance under the ice.

7.   The controversial new findings include the first direct measurements showing how the human immune system becomes locked in a lethal battle with the AIDS virus.

8.   The Earth is not alone in such churning, as was driven home last week as the Galileo spacecraft sent back its first measurements and images of Ganymede.

9.   This produced what the authors described as the first direct clinical measurements of immune-system activity both in AIDS patients and an uninfected control group.