The phrase "altered the first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes made to an initial item, version, or element in a sequence or list.
Example: "After reviewing the feedback, the team altered the first draft of the report to better align with the client's expectations."
Alternatives: "modified the initial" or "changed the original".
Earlier this week scientists stunned us with the announcement they'd genetically altered the first human embryos in the U.S. using CRISPR technology — but don't hold your breath if you think the ability to make designer babies is right around the corner.
As new games were released, the mode was altered; the first change came with the release of WWF SmackDown!
In clinical practice, independent of the variable primarily altered, the first intervention is usually the volume replacement, according to the following sequence: first, volume; second, cardioactive drugs; and third, blood.
In order to better describe the extent of our search, we altered the first paragraph of the Results section "Phylogeny of Tu-CAS and evidence for a bacterial origin by horizontal transfer".
There's no delay, and the sound is altered the second you perceive it, which creates a seamless listening experience.
In this cartoon, the right to bear arms kicks in only if you belong to a well-regulated militia, but the person with the red marker, presumably a gun industry executive or just a pro-gun activist, has altered the Second Amendment over time, allowing people who aren't in militias to get guns.
In each instance, investigators assert, Harn used his computer access to alter the first part of the bets after those races were run.
Would she, he asked, alter the First or Fourth Amendments "only to the following books…Likewise, would she think that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures properly apply only to the following specified individuals".
The first one consisted in altering the first field of the file so that it would represent the exact moment in which the packet would be sent.
Now, Murray says, drastic measures must be taken to stop the far right from metastasizing even if that means altering the First Amendment.
Sequencing revealed a homozygous point mutation in the ADAM9 gene (MIM ∗ 602713), altering the first base of intron 11 (c.1130+1G→andabolishinghing the splice-site.
