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She's first-named for my college roommate, last-named for the late
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Apologies to co-authors who fall off the list due to LibraryThing's practice of prioritising first-named collaborators compounded by my laziness in not looking them up.
A Doctor Who book poll nwhyte 2009
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A few months after the incident, the first-named author was doing some work with a contingent of senior Iraqi officials from the nascent Iraqi Human Rights Commission as well as other Ministries and government agencies engaged in an AusAID training program conducted in Jordan and Australia.
David Isenberg: Take the King's Shilling, Accept the King's Regulation David Isenberg 2010
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A few months after the incident, the first-named author was doing some work with a contingent of senior Iraqi officials from the nascent Iraqi Human Rights Commission as well as other Ministries and government agencies engaged in an AusAID training program conducted in Jordan and Australia.
David Isenberg: Take the King's Shilling, Accept the King's Regulation David Isenberg 2010
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That had me worried because in my current work, I kill off the first-named character on page five.
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Instead of Kutschin and Nödtvedt, who had gone home from Buenos Aires while the ship was there in the autumn of 1911, three new men were engaged -- namely, Halvorsen, Olsen and Steller; the two first-named were from Bergen; Steller was a German, who had lived for several years in Norway, and talked Norwegian like a native.
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One of the most curious submissions was a joint submission in which the first-named was an architecture firm in a neighbouring suburb of mine in Melbourne.
Rotterdam, Netherlands « The expat numbat: from AU to NL 2009
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Through gritted teeth I voted SCUP in the List (Highlands and Islands) - through gritted teeth because the first-named on the list is Mary Scanlon, a lady I have come to detest from personal experience over several years.
A sounding board... Jeff 2007
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This party was composed of Prestrud, Stubberud, and Johansen, under the leadership of the first-named.
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These two were inseparable friends; the first-named was boss, and the other obeyed him blindly.
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