11.  HARPY and TRACE II took the first option.

12.  The first option was politically impractical, as close advisers like Georges Pompidou realized.

13.  The first option would practically wreck further liberalisation of the energy market while the latter would almost certainly dump the UK into the dock of the European Court.

14.  Through them they have to have first option.

15.  Analysts said the first option would send financial markets tumbling.

16.  And we pass as the first option and not as a last option.

17.  As part of the sale, the Ibanez and Radic families had first option to buy the courier unit when Socimer put it up for sale.

18.  At present, workers have the first option to buy companies or assets sold by the state.

19.  Ayala and manager Scott Sherman of Fort Worth hope this performance will earn them a world title shot this summer, with the WBC belt the first option.

20.  Authorities are investigating whether Nomura gave politicians and bureaucrats first option to buy popular new stock issues, guaranteeing them a profit, the paper said.