The phrase "as a first indication" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial sign or piece of evidence regarding a situation or topic.
Example: "As a first indication of the project's success, we saw a significant increase in user engagement."
Alternatives: "as an initial sign" or "as a preliminary indication".
Do you see this angry reaction as something that would not be repeated by more mindful adults, or as a first indication of an enduring undercurrent?
Other Warrington players talk of Smith's first video session, when he spent more than half an hour dissecting their slapdash kick-off routine, as a first indication of the impact he would make.
As the OEHI is a "summary" of many input parameters, it serves as a first indication that something is amiss.
These results might be interpreted as a first indication for the importance of evolutionary history knowledge as a context for the development of evolutionary explanations.
The APU's socioeconomic stratification in terms of the uneven livestock distribution can be seen as a first indication of the social inequity within the organization and the respective community, though not a proof of it.
We interpret these findings as a first indication that the proposed model can generate valid forecasts for developed countries experiencing (ir)regular mortality trajectories; a thorough validation will be part/object of follow-up analyses possibly including mortality forecasts for more countries using different base periods, forecast horizons, core models, and RCs.
The different numbers of cDNAs for the two spliced forms (five cDNAs with a short intron and two cDNAs with a long intron in the expo library, and only four cDNAs with a long intron, none with a short intron, in the expo library) was a first indication that the AS was regulated by the environment of the cells, i.e. the growth conditions.
The serum degradation profiles of the peptides also give a first indication as to their resistance against secreted bacterial proteases.
Therefore, a community analysis of a given network can provide a first indication as to whether it is going to exhibit coordination failures or not, although it must be realized that communities themselves may contain inner topological traps which could prevent them from coordinating in a unique equilibrium (as seen also in [34]).
Although single-gene expression assays might be a promising alternative in delivering a first indication, as for all single end point assays, they are often too simplistic.
In addition to considering a set of different accounting journals, as a second indication of research diversity we focus on the research methods employed (e.g. also see Williams et al. 2006; Oler et al. 2010).
