The phrase "anticipated the first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing expectations or predictions regarding an initial event or occurrence.
Example: "The team anticipated the first signs of spring to arrive earlier than usual this year."
Alternatives: "expected the first" or "predicted the first".
Boeing's last projection had anticipated the first delivery in February.
"But with the number of snaps that we anticipated the first offense running, it just wasn't appropriate to play him".
These single-celled entrepreneurs might have gained energy by stripping oxygen from the land-derived iron — an electron-transfer reaction that anticipated the first battery by two billion years.
These single-celled entrepreneurs might have gained energy by stripping oxygen from the land-derived iron an electron-transfer reaction that anticipated the first battery by two billion years.
He had been active in transit matters since the 1880's, but there is no evidence that his Park Row plan anticipated the first subway project, which was built from 1900 to 1904, ended at City Hall Park across from the Park Row Building and increased the value of downtown properties.
In fact, Galileo does not employ the notion of force at all in his derivation of these two relationships, and contrary to legend however much Galileo may have anticipated the first law, he never showed the least sign of appreciating the implication that Descartes emphasized, that curvilinear motion requires something to deflect the body out of its motion in a straight line.
In effect, he anticipated the first-person, modernist cinema, and even if, in making "Ivan the Terrible," he didn't have entirely free rein to put his theories to work, the soundtrack is as notable as the graphically potent, titanic images: he created a symphony of voices, blended with original music by Sergei Prokofiev, that conjures both the deliverance and the derangement of power.
It's now September, and as anticipated, the second Twitpocalypse is nearing.
I seriously anticipated the second season, and admittedly, I watched all of it.
There may be no need for Lucasfilm (also owned by Disney) to even bother promoting "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," given how highly anticipated the seventh film in the space-opera franchise is.
If the initial cost of the option was $0.20 per dose desired, and 1 million doses were anticipated, the third party payer may spend $200,000 up front.
