Sentence examples for first if not from inspiring English sources

She was one of the first (if not the first) black women to sing on radio.

I was one of the first, if not the first, to play black players," he said.

We're planning to be one of the first, if not the very first".

We were among the first, if not the first, to break the commercial publishers' intellectual monopoly on legal information.

The Aortic Institute is certainly one of the first, if not the very first, formally designated such Institute.

He was one of the first, if not the first, to consider the imaginary roots of equations.

Mr. Devlin surmised that he was among the first, if not the first, to create an actual anti-fedora sign.

I knew that Ajdabiya was among the first, if not the first, to liberate itself from government forces.

"They'd like me to start around the fifth or sixth game, if not the first game," he said.

But they would prefer to be second, if not third or fourth.

Certain projectors, once switched off, may take many seconds if not minutes to warm up again.