It is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the first opinions or comments that are made in a discussion or conversation. Example sentence: After hearing the first round of comments, it seemed that everyone had the same opinion.
After the first round of comments were made public last Thursday — including a joke about how the world would be a better place if Matt Drudge "set himself on fire" — he apologized to his readers and appeared to move on to other news.
Mr. Weber surprised them again when — despite the furor his first round of comments provoked — he repeated his criticism last month during a speech in New York, where he called on the E.C.B. to end the so-called Securities Markets Program.
Given the enormous volume, scope, complexity, and importance of the issues raised in the first round of comments, good cause plainly exists for this request.
In the first round of comments, the editors pointed out that punctuation marks don't mean anything to kids who can't read yet.
After Robertson's first round of comments came to light, A&E decided to suspend the duck-call inventor from the series temporarily, even though production on the season was almost complete.
The experts provided a first round of comments to a requirements process coordinator, who assembled these into requirements specification documents.
A second round of comments was sought with respect to any new issues that had been raised during the first round or where panellists wished to add to their previous responses.
Wheeler tweeted on Friday that the agency has received about 647,000 public comments so far, and a second round of commenting will end on September 10.
Zone 3, which has about 16,000 residential units, was added to the program after the first round of public comments on the plan showed that residents in those areas needed help.
Author reply: We feel it is important to address the statement that we "remov[ed] or ton[ed] down several unjustified assumptions" in response to the first round of reviewer comments.
