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The phrase "and possibly the first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that may be the first of its kind or occurrence, indicating uncertainty.
Example: "This discovery is groundbreaking and possibly the first of its kind in the field of archaeology."
Alternatives: "and perhaps the first" or "and maybe the first".
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I'll also have to pay my accommodation deposit and possibly the first month's rent myself.
Wigginton is a start, as is Reyes and possibly the first baseman-catcher Jason Phillips.
Iris Murdoch was the most improper philosopher of that generation, and possibly the first person in Oxford to read Sartre.
In 1966, Columbia became the first collegiate institution in the United States — and possibly the first in the world — with an LGBT student group.
Dove, one of America's foremost modernists and possibly the first painter in history to create pure abstract art, is the subject of considerable attention at the moment.
Jayne County, the last of Andy Warhol's Superstars and possibly the first transgender liberationist, still crosses lines of propriety at 53 with her glorious glam-rock noise.
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Since being enacted in 2001, the Patriot Act has driven a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the 10 original amendments -- the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments--and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well.
The Patriot Act drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the 10 original amendments -- the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments--and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well.
The Patriot Act drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the ten original amendments -- the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments -- and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well.
That should let them test at least the first idea, and possibly the second one as well.
By competitive examination, two of the appellees, and possibly the third, demonstrated their fitness for the jobs they desired.
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