Sentence examples for a first item from inspiring English sources

A first item repeated some lukewarm comments made about Mr Morgan's new CNN chat show by his "illustrious predecessor" Larry King.

The recent report by President Bush's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status proposes a first item in its decolonization agenda, a yes or no vote on the current status, rather than a constitutional convention, which our Legislature is dead set against.

Based on the results of the scoring of each item a first item reduction was obtained.

After a first item reduction the data were re-analysed in order to explore how the selected questions were combined into relevant domains.

After eliminating items considered ambiguous, complicated to read, double-barrelled, and also those with jargon terms, too long or negatively worded, a first item reduction resulted in 142 items drafted in question form.

For example, when the score of a first item shows an increase by a multiplication factor of 2 and a second item shows a decrease by a factor of 2 (multiplication factor 0.5), the mean of the values 2 and 0.5 equals 1.25.

A fourth item, an archaic relief purchased two years later, is also in question.

Then he pulled out a second item: a sleek 9-millimeter pistol.

Today, they also have to worry less about a third item: mortgage costs.

Congress should add a third item to the agenda (because the Administration surely won't): campaignfinance reform.

A third item was unveiled at an editorial meeting: a heavy chrome medallion of the type worn by hip-hop artists who want to look like Olympic medalists.