Sentence examples for children the first from inspiring English sources

The Professor sometimes gave a little lecture to children gathered around: "Children, the first thing you have to know is you must not excite the turtle boy prior to slaughter.

"It's not that Blackadder teaches children the first world war.

And there were ex-wives, and children – the first one's name was D'Amato.

In due course, Quiney and Judith had three children; the first, Shakespeare Quiney, died in infancy.

William Lynn, on charges of endangering the welfare of children — the first such indictment of a senior church official.

Choice answers included: "the first man in space" ; "kind to children"; "the first Czar"; "builder of Moscow" and "poet who will be our next president".

Moreover, except black male Caribbean-English immigrants arriving in the USA as children, the first-generation immigrants tend to have higher wage penalties than the third- and higher-generation African-American Americans regardless of age of arrival or work period.

The other half would have two children, the first-born always a girl and the second born either a boy (25 families) or a girl (25 families).

Combining the three provinces, of those families having two or more children, the first-born was a girl in 68% and a boy in 32% (data not shown).

In Shaanxi, of those families who had at least two children, the first-born was a boy in many (40%) (table 6).

In 1981, the Reagan Adm. cancelled the White House Conference on Children-the first time in this century that this conference, which had been held once every decade since 1909, has not taken place.