Sentence examples for as the first is from inspiring English sources

Let's assume it's the second, as the first is too inane to contemplate.

Whether the "sixth extinction" will turn out to be anywhere near as drastic as the first is impossible to know; nevertheless, it is likely to appear in the fossil record as a turning point.

The other thought/emotion, differently unwelcome and yet nearly as ineluctable as the first, is that you find yourself preoccupied with the judgment that you just don't find Wallace all that nice.

Yet Michelle Obama only had to step up to the speaker's rostrum in Denver to make it clear, before she even opened her mouth, that there is, and was always going to be, a second question in play in this election, nearly but not quite as important as the first: is America ready to elect a black first lady too?

The great fear for central banks is that the markets will price in several rate rises as soon as the first is announced; that happened back in 1994 and the bond markets crashed.It is worth emphasising how remarkable the current policy is, by past standards.

A second mechanism, which has the same effect as the first, is the increasing addition of nitrogen-rich fertilisers to soils by agriculture and forest managers.

Nonetheless, we agree that claiming the Calderwood et al. work as the "the first" is not appropriate.

The first is known as the Adelphia hangover.

The first is known as an Environmental Impact Assessment EIAA).

The first is stated as follows.

The first is John Jay, as mentioned above.