But at least it's a start, even if a long-overdue one.
But it's a start – even, for riders of the new zipwire, a flying start.
Otherwise unionisation is a start, even if the AGMs may look initially bizarre, a convention of beautiful giraffes, asking for the protection the less beautiful take for granted.
I've got a lot of work to do but it's a start to even be aware that it's possible".
Fifteen million pounds of funding would be an okay start, even though that amounts to about one fifth of Gareth Bale.
Too many to list, but here's a start: T. C. Boyle, Robert Caro, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Denis Johnson, Jon Krakauer, Erik Larson, Janet Malcolm, Steven Millhauser, Candice Millard, Cynthia Ozick, Ann Patchett, Richard Price, Ron Rosenbaum, Philip Roth (even if he's no longer writing), Hampton Sides and Colson Whitehead.
It's an excellent start, even if it didn't seem very likely early in the second quarter.
This is a starting point, but even for English there are a number of tricky cases.
Reaching the break-even mark was a start.
