The phrase "analogous to the first" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing two or more items, indicating that they share similarities or are comparable in some way.
Example: "The second experiment was analogous to the first, demonstrating similar results under controlled conditions."
Alternatives: "comparable to the first" or "similar to the first".
There is also an eighth category that picks up any event that is analogous to the first seven.
"If the Supreme Court were to accept the view that is held by the N.R.A., and maybe by Ashcroft, then the right to own firearms would be analogous to the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech," he said.
The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod.
Does the second student gesture because they are simulating evaporation in a way analogous to the first student?
This criterion successfully explains the behavior analogous to the "first" and "second" explosion limits observed in homogeneous hydrogen-oxygen mixtures.
Concerning its main operation parameters it is in several aspects analogous to the first tokamak based version of a "fusion transmutation of waste reactor".
If the 2012 Presidential campaign were analogous to the Second World War — and, for the record, it's really, really not — what stage would we have reached?
By Philip Gourevitch President Bush has now taken to suggesting that a war to get rid of Saddam Hussein be thought of as analogous to the Second World War.
President Bush has now taken to suggesting that a war to get rid of Saddam Hussein be thought of as analogous to the Second World War.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin December 27, 2011 If the 2012 Presidential campaign were analogous to the Second World War — and, for the record, it's really, really not — what stage would we have reached?
Photograph by Richard Ellis/Getty Images If the 2012 Presidential campaign were analogous to the Second World War — and, for the record, it's really, really not — what stage would we have reached?
