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The phrase "as the first thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the initial action or consideration in a sequence of events or tasks.
Example: "As the first thing, we need to gather all the necessary materials before starting the project."
Alternatives: "first and foremost" or "to begin with".
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Having the key as the first thing one read in table declaration gives important information about the nature of the table and how one finds the entities in it.
Yet she said she had a vision to one day become a police officer, characterizing it as "the first thing in my mind".
As the first thing you lay eyes upon when opening up a new book, the first line needs to be impactful, enticing, and enough to get us hooked.
"With the military being in control, the tendency is to adopt military solutions to political problems as the first thing you do".
Given the makeup of his coalition, which is fiercely divided on how to deal with the Palestinians, it's in some ways hard to see this as the first thing he would try to tackle.
As it happens, I need not have bothered as the first thing out of his mouth was a joke and not a bad one at that (he said the government's Plan B was "Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis").
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"They looked at me as if the first thing they thought was that I was a perp," he said.
But right now it looks as if the first thing on the next administration's plate will have to be dealing with a weak economy.
Right at the moment, I guess we're definitely in the era of "do not take as read the first thing that people say to you".
And as you walked in, the first thing you saw was the toilet.
As expected, the first thing I encountered was security.
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