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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a first option" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to the initial choice or alternative among several possibilities. Example: "When considering the best approach to the project, we should evaluate a first option before exploring others."
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As a first option, Dynegy could have adjourned the meeting.
Cortisone and topical creams are often a first option.
Along with educating all public officials that closing prisons should never be a first option".
His review found that it was used as a first option on some occasions.
Do you have a first option on any other series she might be doing?
Or it might order a shift to a "first option" model, in which liability and cost control stay together.
But indefinite detention must surely be a last, reluctant resort, not a first option because a case is complicated.
The ICC encourages countries, she stressed, to try cases in their own courts as a first option.
Paul, said she saw many homeowners who looked at foreclosure as a first option, preferable to dealing with their lender.
He offered me £25 for a first option -nearly eight times what I'd earned working in a kitchen.
Eli Lilly will receive licensing fees and royalties, and will receive a first option to relicense compounds in the future.
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