The phrase "a first set of measures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial group of actions or criteria that will be taken or evaluated in a particular context.
Example: "In response to the recent challenges, we have implemented a first set of measures to improve our operational efficiency."
Alternatives: "an initial group of measures" or "a preliminary set of measures".
After a first set of planned measures failed to impress lenders, Athens offered a more detailed package on Wednesday.
In the following year, field studies allowed epidemiologists to identify its major transmission mode, meat and bone meal [ 2], and a first set of control measures were taken to break the transmission cycle.
"We had the first set of measures, that's over, now they want a second," said Angeliki Kolandretsou, 63, a retired private nurse who joined the nationwide strike Wednesday.
The first set of measures in this category comprises financial transfers in the form wage subsidies to workers, for example in-work benefits, reductions in social security contributions, tax credits and other making work pay schemes paid to low-wage workers or low-income families to raise their income conditional on working.
These measures were repeated a second time in five families because >1 of their members still harbored PRSA 1 2 weeks after the first set of measures was implemented.
The students' understanding of normal histology was assessed in the beginning of the module to determine the impact of the first set of measures, whereas that of abnormal histology was assessed at the end of the module to determine the impact of the whole set of measures.
In a first set of experiments, aimed at defining appropriate measures for a clinical study, PMN isolated from eight healthy donors were subjected to IC stimulation with a serum with high concentration of anti-CII in IC (14740 AU/ml or 8 μg/ml) or with an anti-CII-negative healthy control serum.
A first set of mated females was used to measure the size of the progeny.
To verify the model and identify important model parameters we measured in a first set of experiments induction kinetics of the scr genes after growth on glycerol using strains with single copy lacZ operon fusions in the scrK or scrY genes, respectively.
A second set of migration measures, duration of maternal and/or paternal migration, indicates the proportion of a child's lifetime the mother and/or father has worked abroad.
