Sentence examples for but only first from inspiring English sources

"In some sense, this is just a big but only first step down the road to achieving that durability of funding," Daniel K. Tarullo, the Fed governor who oversees regulation, said at a board meeting on the rule.

Scott Totzke, senior vice-president for BlackBerry security at the Ontario-based company, told Bloomberg: "Technical certifications are an important but only first, 'threshold' step in meeting the needs of truly secure mobile computing for government.

But only "first responders" had been invited, and Mr. Giuliani's speech was devoted to the heroism of police officers and firefighters on Sept. 11 and the threat of terrorism.

Table  4 shows statistics on those items, with first, second and third usage for Part 1, but only first and second usage for Part 2 (there being no items used three times in Part 2).

Santa Anita was the fourth largest track in the nation, but only second in California.

His completion percentage was the best of his career but only ninth best in the N.F.L.

We do not require the sources to be statistically independent but only second-order independent.

Identity is thus not first-order, but only second-order definable.

Germany's Volkswagen (9) is the world's fourth-largest automaker by sales but only eighth largest by market capitalization.

In the UK, an organisation called Phonepayplus regulates premium SMS services — but only third party premium SMS services.

This placed him fourth in the Australian aggregates, but only seventh in the averages.