Sentence examples for a first cut at from inspiring English sources

A first cut at the data, looking at the Jan . 27-29poll alone, suggests no.

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At heart, objective journalism sets out to establish the facts about a situation, report fairly the range of opinion around it and take a first cut at what arguments are the most reasonable.

Booking travel and restaurant reservations, rearranging meeting schedules or even taking a first cut at reading e-mail are among the mundane tasks that have remained beyond the reach of our PCs for decades.

Now, in the research of Mr. Ashenfelter and Mr. Greenstone, we have a first cut at the facts 15 years after the 41 legislatures raised the speed limit on Interstate highways running through rural stretches of their states.

Congress took a first cut at this problem in the 1998 Higher Education Act, which included amendments that encourage the states to improve their schools of education and rely less on unqualified teachers.

A second cut at the data compares the Jan . 8poll to the Jan 27-29 poll.

Yet size alone is no guarantee of success, which is why we have taken a second cut at the Forbes 2000 to find big companies that are absolutely great at what they do.

Make a second cut at 'B', slightly further out on the limb and from the top.

So, at a first cut, the decision to drill seems an economic no-brainer.

"We looked at a first cut of our draft budget," Nichols said last night.