The phrase "as the very first step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the initial action or stage in a process or sequence of events.
Example: "As the very first step, we need to gather all necessary materials before starting the project."
Alternatives: "as the initial step" or "as the first action".
"We developed this as the very first step toward suborbital flights.
Think of Primo as the very first step in a child's programming education.
In the future, we anticipate that RNAi HTS will be applied as the very first step of many research endeavors, and the results of the screens will provide lead information to design defined validation experiments.
In the follow up article by Good et al. [39], emphasis is put on the selection of the suitable biological fluid or 'sample source' as the very first step of the study design.
As the very first step, the network of Yu et al. [16] as given in Figure 1 is transformed into a Petri net, compare Figure 2. A closer look on Figure 1 reveals that the schematic diagram is already almost a bipartite graph (with a few exceptions), whereby rectangles (transitions) denote species, and small circles (places) reactions.
At the beginning of Session 1, the patient was requested to draw any picture that came into their minds, as the very first step.
And as Musk suggests, the very first step needs to be increasing awareness about AI's implications among government officials.
Much less is known about species forming during the early stages of aggregation, in particular about the monomeric state of the Aβ peptide that may be viewed as the product of the very first step in the hypothesized amyloid cascade.
As illustrated in Fig. 3, the very first step of the proposed algorithm is to determine all predictors that estimate the search centers of all PU partitions before the diamond search is applied.
The project has been based on a user-centered design approach, with the aim of designing and developing a mobile app, which takes into account the user and his/her needs, preferences, abilities, since the very first step (as described in [18]).
