The phrase "a large first step" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an initial action or decision that is significant in size or impact, often in the context of progress or change.
Example: "Launching the new initiative was a large first step towards achieving our long-term goals."
Alternatives: "a significant initial move" or "a major first action".
Her pirouette to the left looked slow and mannered, and her pirouette to the right began with a bit of a lurch and an over-large first step.
The prisoner exchange was a risky but necessary first step toward larger releases leading to the closure of Camp Forcefeedawatha.
In a first step, a large subset of preliminary results that are associated with the disease are selected.
As a first step, a large collection of Expressed Sequence Tags was obtained from the legume pathogen A. euteiches, which was then processed and collected into AphanoDB.
In species with large genomes, a critical first step for genome characterization is to survey the expressed genes.
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Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a seven-bill package that supporters see as a first step in a larger effort to reform the state's civil asset forfeiture laws, which allow police agencies to profit from seized property linked to a crime even if the owner is never charged or convicted.
And relatively inexperienced Iraqi forces have now taken the lead in most of the capital area as American forces withdraw to large bases as a first step towards leaving the country.
Therefore hybrid clustering, i.e. combining several clustering methods to take advantage of their specific strengths, was performed using K-means, known for its efficiency for clustering large datasets, as a first step for HAC [ 18, 19].
It is, however, a first step in a larger and long-considered strategy to topple a 29-year-old Supreme Court ruling that all children in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are guaranteed a public education.
