The phrase "attracting the first" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing initial interest or appeal, but it requires additional context to convey a complete thought.
Example: "The marketing campaign is focused on attracting the first customers to our new product line."
Alternatives: "drawing in the initial" or "capturing the first".
Credit for attracting the first New Jersey outpost of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que to Newark goes partly to the city's mayor, Cory A. Booker.
A lot of this is – if you're a movement within the Conservative party or a grassroots organisation – what type of person you're attracting the first place.
Many founders believe in the myth that the first steps of starting a business are the hardest: Attracting the first investment, the first hires, proving the technology, launching the first product and landing the first customer.
W E 'REdoing a mixed-use community that is attracting the first-time buyer, the move-up buyer and the empty-nester," Mr. DiCanio said.
In an age when attracting the first-round intellectual draft choices from around the world is the most important competitive advantage a knowledge economy can have, why would we add barriers against such brainpower — anywhere?
Pretty blue flowers in late winter attract the first bees of the year.
In high school, he helped lead an initiative to attract the first bookstore to San Antonio's South Side and spent his college summers back home working for local politicians.
It's the nature of centenaries that a writer may get a second chance, making friends with readers whom she didn't attract the first time around.
Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN agency that oversees the Kyoto protocol, argues that these provide the biggest and cheapest opportunities to cut emissions, and so have naturally attracted the first CDM investments.
It was the prospect of great mineral wealth comparable to the gold deposits of the Witwatersrand in neighbouring South Africa that attracted the first permanent European settlers in the 1890s.
