This was an early instance of Alan recognising, nurturing and celebrating gastronomic talent.
Born in 1688, Drummond was an early instance of the tireless urban administrator; the Joseph Chamberlain or Robert Moses of his age.
In a way, it was an early instance of radical chic: the Transcendentalists preferred a real man to a squabbling set of Mrs. Jellybys.
These albums, which pushed the vogue for eclecticism to the point of incoherence, were an early instance of what the classical violinist Joshua Bell calls "Edgar-music".
Karlheinz Stockhausen strictly schematized and rigorously controlled pitches, intensities and durations in "Kreuzspiel" ("Crossplay"), an early instance of total serialism from 1951.
It would not be amiss to call him the West's first populist, and his speech an early instance of negative campaigning.
This is an early instance of that denial of the revolutionary origin of the movement that became entirely obvious in the reign of Alexander Jannaeus.
The slang lexicographer Grant Barrett spotted an early instance of it in a 1996 post to an online pro-wrestling forum deriding one wrestler's "junk grab".
The opening display includes the famous matelot sweater, backless and sexy on a jaunty male — an early instance of the Gaultier man as sex object.
