The phrase "acquired in the first" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing something obtained or learned during an initial phase or stage.
Example: "The skills acquired in the first year of training are essential for future success."
Alternatives: "obtained initially" or "gained in the beginning".
With the second semester, I was able to leverage the experience, knowledge, and improvement in language abilities acquired in the first.
John Witherspoon's books had been acquired in the first part of the 19th century due to the efforts of his son-in-law Samuel Stanhope Smith.
The follow-up video, Neva Did It, will find Tulisa sneaking a peak at the text messages of the extravagantly buff male consort she acquired in the first.
Mr. Tinterow said many of the works had been acquired in the first few years after the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing for Modern art opened in 1987.
So we started off again, the taxi-driver asking how an aboriginal game had acquired in the first place such an unfathomable name.
A record 17 hospices were acquired in the first six months of 2011, according to Dexter Braff of the Braff Group, a Pittsburgh-based merger-advisory firm.
"The Lorenzetti 'Crucifixion' that we bought two years ago was acquired in the nineteenth century by the French artist Paul Delaroche, who thought it was by Giotto".
Jake and BMO decide to give Finn some "alone time" with him and his piece of Bubblegum's hair, which he acquired in the second season episode "To Cut a Woman's Hair".
Interestingly, loss of PTEN expression was acquired in the second recurrent CH37 tumor but not in the first recurrent CH34 chordoma of the same patient.
This mutation was acquired in the second CSI period and presumably does not affect the function of the neighboring domains.
Anti-D alloantibodies were diagnosed at Sanquin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and samples were generally acquired in the third trimester (n = 70).
