Sentence examples for firstly but from inspiring English sources

"You want to stay in the league firstly, but secondly you want to finish in the first five or six spots.

On 7 November, he said: "I feel, myself, very lousy for the fans firstly, but also for the board because they have a great belief in me and my players and my staff, and when you have 13 points out of 10 matches, you are not doing well".

We have found that potassium ions enter the selective membrane firstly but solvent molecules and anions are also participating in the phenomenon.

Firstly, but not relevant in the context of this study, the compression allows a unified model for the topography of the full visual field in areas V1, V2, and V3.

Wavenumber, at which peak appears, depends on the acid treatment time, e.g., Zhang et al. [18] found that peaks at ~1735 firstly but when acid treatment time was increased, the peaks shifted from ~1737 to 1720 cm−1.

Firstly, but merely of an indicative nature, in 2011, the Dutch department for Economic Affairs officially stated that the increase of the share of energy generated regionally would call upon grid operators to make the necessary grid investments given their statutory task of safeguarding an efficient and reliable infrastructure [23].

In fact, a symmetric shape was firstly tried, but it gave slightly larger errors.

Moreover, in accord with the observation in [12], our results also indicate that as the number of receive antenna elements increases, the spectral efficiency will firstly increase, but after reaching the maximum value (approximately around in Figure 5), further increase in would result in a decrease of the achieved spectral efficiency.

Classical histochemical labeling using lectin was firstly performed but did not generate any conclusive results.

There are two features of the UPC that complicate estimation (for the probability calculation) of the number of positions that a motif might arise at: firstly, some but not all regions of the UPC proteins are related by evolution, and secondly, the particular pattern of masking may alter the number of positions available for motifs with a particular distribution of non-wildcard positions.

Firstly, all but 2 of the included 18 studies were retrospective in nature, and secondly, the applied MRI protocols were largely heterogeneous (see Table  1).