The phrase "a first issue in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the initial problem or topic within a specific context or subject matter.
Example: "The report highlights a first issue in the implementation of the new policy that needs to be addressed."
Alternatives: "an initial concern in" or "a primary problem in".
There's a third issue in dispute: which party's policies are more in keeping with our national values?
"We will definitely publish a second issue in January," Mr. Liebetrau wrote, "and then reassess the situation and hopefully continue publication in February and beyond".
■ That feeds a second issue: In the United States, moves toward mandatory takedowns of specific kinds of content could quickly run afoul of the First Amendment.
A second issue in the case, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, appeared less troublesome to the justices, though it had earlier seemed to be the more important issue.
A second issue in the new case before the court, Penry v. Johnson, No. 00-6677, is whether Mr. Penry's constitutional protection against compelled self-incrimination was violated by the prosecution's use of a psychiatric exam that had been administered to him by a state psychiatrist when he was in jail for an unrelated crime.
A second issue in deriving forwarding distributions via simulations is packet duplication.
A second issue (in his view) is the compactness of Old English words, which often have no modern equivalents, and phrases which are "inevitably weakened even in prose by transference to our looser modern language".
A third issue in molecular dating involves the general modelling of among-lineage rate heterogeneity.
A second issue in the literature is that depression, whether conceptualized as a syndromal entity or symptom continuum, has at best explained only a modest portion (<5%) of variance in diabetes outcomes (3).
He began working for Sports Illustrated a few months after its first issue, in 1954.
