Wobbling precariously on my crutches after a family dinner in a local restaurant, I hailed the first cab in the rank.
To be sure, there are many areas in which China does rank first in the world.
There is a paradox surrounding Wales's position in the first-rank of internet movers and shakers, which he freely acknowledges.
Or at least it was last year, for the first time, after a steady rise in rank over the past few years.
He was born in Londonderry in Northern Ireland, and after gaining a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant.
Those teams, who all play similar styles of defense, rank sixth, fifth and first in the NBA, respectively, in defensive efficiency.
Kennedy, former U.S. Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, is the first and only woman to have received this flag rank in the U.S. Army.
The first woman in the Army Reserve to be promoted to the general officer rank.
Heart disease and trauma rank first and second as the two most expensive conditions in terms of total national health care spending while cancer remains the most expensive on a per-person cost basis.
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Hong Kong didn't even rank in the top 10 in Knight Frank's first global cities survey, released in 2009.
Having risen once before to the rank of first-deputy prime minister, he was sacked in January 1996 when hostility to privatisation was at its zenith and Mr Yeltsin needed a scapegoat.
The markets apparently regard me as a worse credit risk than the government of the world's eighth largest economy - largely because individuals have a sorrier history in general of repaying what they owe than the public sectors of first-rank developed economies.
But we do know that the three metros rank poorly in everything except the average salary ranking, where they place first, second and third, respectively.
StatCounter presents its data as is, and even though other counts of world-wide Internet users generally rank China first, the company's reading suggests that China ranks 22nd in the world in Web usage.
It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.
He goes into the politics and jockeying, from Mr Aldrin's vociferous campaign to be first, to Mr Armstrong's pulling rank (as commander of the module, he was higher in the NASA hierarchy).
The bill paves the way for a referendum on changing the Westminster electoral system from first-past-the-post to the Alternative Vote (AV) system, whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference on the ballot paper.
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