The phrase "in the first batch of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the first group of things in a series. For example: "I received a good grade on the first batch of tests I took."
There are ten L.P.s in the first batch of reissues.
Even so, there is one out-and-out rave in the first batch of reviews.
MUCH of the information in the first batch of Wikileaks releases regarding Latin America was already widely known.
There are ten L.P.s in the first batch of reissues View Article By Phil Klay By Andy Borowitz By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy.
But Brazil and Mexico, the only two Latin American countries in the first batch of results, lagged a long way behind the other participants.
Wall Street traders took in the first batch of quarterly earnings reports on Tuesday, but nobody seemed quite sure what to make of the numbers.
Shot in Eastmancolor, the first batch of Hammer Horror movies – Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959) – are among the loveliest-looking British films of the decade.
In September 1998, the first batch of data on storage tape contained in a plastic cartridge was sent to Elections Canada; it had information about 675,000 licenced drivers in Manitoba.
Last month in Colorado the first batch of 348 retail marijuana licenses issued by the state's Marijuana Enforcement Division were delivered through the post in readiness for the world's first state-licensed recreational marijuana industry.
In December, the first batch of defendants was acquitted, but 58 defendants remain charged and will face a judge and jury in at least nine more trials; jury selection for the next of these is scheduled to begin Monday.
Moreover, in March 2002, the first batch of 120,000 tablets of GPO-VIR (a combination of nevirapine 200 mg, lamivudine 150 mg and stavudine 30 mg), produced by GPO, was made available at a cost of 20 Baht (US$0.466) a tablet.
