Sentence examples for earliest if not from inspiring English sources

One of the earliest (if not the earliest) replacement shells was UShell, written to support ROM versions 9.0 and 10.0 when ZShell didn't.

Tell el-Dab'a supposedly had a secure archaeologically based chronology linked to Egypt which showed that the relevant cultural horizon in the Aegean was late 16th century BC at the earliest, if not later.

Newark sits with a port, an airport -- one of the earliest, if not the first commercial airport in the country -- two important train stations and a highway infrastructure cutting through the downtown".

Our results confirm the use of artificial cranial modification at the site, making Boisman 2 one of the earliest – if not the earliest – documented example of the practice in Holocene East Asia; however, our metric analysis identified only six crania as modified, instead of the 11 previously identified through visual assessment.

I was surprised that Philippe de Montebello didn't take the opportunity to claim the Metropolitan Museum's credit for establishing one of the earliest, if not the first, satellite museum in the United States ["Hip vs. Stately: The Tao of Two Museums," Feb. 20].

Now, except for a few of the Father Brown stories by Chesterton, for which I did not much care, I have not read any detective stories since one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of the imitators of Sherlock Holmes — a writer named Jacques Futrelle, now dead, who invented a character called the Thinking Machine and published his first volume of stories about him in 1907.

Evan Davis' dog, Mr Whippy, attempting to predict England's World Cup results was an early, if not entirely inspiring, example.

"Up," which had its debut in mid-September, is on twice each weekend, very early (if not way too early) in the morning.

We are currently examining the plates and seals to identify which printing we hold and believe the first two parts are early, if not first, printings.

Most health officials now agree that the epidemic could have been contained earlier, if not averted, by a more robust and better-organized international response.

The shop has been four years in the making and would have been launched much earlier if not for various setbacks, including Hurricane Sandy.