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01. I read the first [chapter] of the book last night, and it seems pretty good.
02. His divorce marked the beginning of a new [chapter] in his life.
03. She read the first three [chapters] of the book, and decided she didn't want to finish it.
04. The author said that he generally started his books by quickly writing the first and last [chapters], and then slowly filling in everything between.
05. The treatment of the native people by the first European settlers in North America is a sad [chapter] in the history of the new world.
06. The first couple of [chapters] were boring, but I really got into it the more I read.
07. His new book is available in a popular magazine which is publishing a different [chapter] each month.
08. The final [chapter] of Italian colonial history came to an end in Ethiopia in 1941.
09. The organization has opened up a number of youth [chapters] across the United States in the last ten years.
10. I'll read one [chapter] to you, but after that, I want you to go to sleep.
11. My time in prison is a [chapter] of my life which I regret, but which taught me a great deal about people.
12. Thomas Jefferson once said that honesty is the first [chapter] of the book of wisdom.
13. An encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming dynasty had 22,937 [chapters] in 10,000 volumes.
14. Nora Ephron once said that if pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two [chapters].
15. The local [chapter] of the environmental organization Greenpeace is protesting against water pollution in our area.
16. The police fear that the Hell's Angels motorcycle group is planning to open up a [chapter] in our city.

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