Sentence examples for be only a first from inspiring English sources

Leaving Gaza, he says, must be only a first step.

Even laws like the one New York may soon have can be only a first step.

The expected (and welcome) departure of the country's ailing prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, will be only a first step.

In Kabul, Mr. Brahimi's deputy, Francesc Vendrell, repeatedly underscored that the meeting in Berlin would be only a first stage.

An attack on coca plants may be only a first salvo in the attack of the fusarium fungus.

If lawmakers and administration officials really want to restore confidence, the bailout must be only a first step.

If it were a pregnancy, I'd be only a third of the way there".

The next generation of transistors will be only a fourth as large.

In twenty years it may be only a third.

The gun velocity needed to be only, a third of Thin Man.

Reduced seedling growth rate may be only a first-year trade-off, but it would make establishment in weedy conditions more difficult.