Sentence examples for earlier first from inspiring English sources

(Originally Mr. Ratmansky had planned to end with the even earlier first symphony).

It was an earlier first lady, Jackie Kennedy, who brought "socialist books" into the White House library.

The movie makes a fruitless and embarrassing sidetrack by introducing Val's estranged son from an earlier first marriage.

An earlier "first" was John Ogilby's Britannia, published in 1675, an atlas of road strip maps plotted by odometer and compass, presaging the modern road map.

But this public display was far different from the admiring conjugality of earlier first ladies such as Mamie Eisenhower and Pat Nixon.

Disgust with America took over where traditional avant-garde contempt for the bourgeoisie had left off, a decade or so earlier, first with the triumphs of Abstract Expressionism and then with the fiesta of Pop.

Let off the hook after an earlier first-down decision, Mike Smith doesn't hesitate when this drive stalls around the 40.

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In many cases, particularly involving films of the 1930s and earlier, first-generation material no longer exists (the negatives of "King Kong" and "Citizen Kane," for example, were both lost in a fire), and the movies survive only in copies many generations removed from the original.

Many of the earlier first-round matches at the Open seemed to be set on a fast track — the first two featured women's matches took barely more than an hour — and that included No. 2 Rafael Nadal needing just 2 hours 6 minutes to rout Ryan Harrison, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.

Earlier, second-seeded Andre Agassi beat Karol Kucera, 6-1, 7-5.