31.   The team got flattened in the first round of the play-offs.

32.   Quite embarrassingly, the top-seeded player bowed out in the first round of competition.

33.   Fujimori also attracted the votes given to the ruling APRA and other left-wing parties in the first round.

34.   A number of US citizens were airlifted to Abidjan in mid-June when a first round of peace talks proved unsuccessful.

35.   First round of two-plus-four talks in Bonn.

36.   The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections, but parliament had initially refused to accept it.

37.   There were violent clashes with police near the Mediterranean port of Damietta after the first round.

38.   Radio Cotonou reported that the first round took place in a calm and serious atmosphere.

39.   Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round.

40.   It had the right to annul the first round of voting, if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities, and to organize new elections within two months.