"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

This student from the state of Texas was the first place winner of last week's National Geographic Bee.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

First place went to a design for a skyscraper jail made by architecture students in Malaysia.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In nineteen seventy-eight, the islands were the first place named to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

She has led the Tennessee Lady Vols to first place in eight N.C.A.A.national championships.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Right now, Jeff Gordon is in first place in the Sprint Cup series.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

New Zealand shared first place last year with Denmark and Sweden.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Both teams won first place and received gold medals.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

"And this will require that we continue to tackle the underlying problems that caused this turmoil in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it is an outrage."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Actual modernization,says Nemtsov, is impossible without naming and removing the people responsible for the stagnation and authoritarian rule in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Tabachnyk has raised eyebrows with statements that suggest western and eastern Ukraine should be separated, or should never have been united in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"We don't want the girl to get on the plane in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

He's just gonna trace your scent there.It's the first place he's gonna look.

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