The phrase "in the first instance only" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English in certain contexts.
It typically means that something will only happen or be considered at the initial stage or as a first option, with the possibility of it changing or being revisited later on. Example: "The committee agreed to address the issue in the first instance only and will reassess the situation at a later date if necessary."
But if the target must, in the first instance, only be the very rich, then it is a good place to start.
This acts to collect and store hydrogen while the current runs through the water, meaning that in the first instance only oxygen is released.
Berwick said it was puzzling that Uber would want to publicise its defeat and spend a lot of time and money on what, ostensibly, was an administrative ruling that applied, in the first instance, only to her own circumstances.
His version may be tight: his draft calls it an "additional, optional instrument" that will apply in the first instance "only to a very limited number of immigrants".Mr Schily would like his plan to become law next year.
It is fair to say that the user currently under arrest addressed his tweet to Daley and so it would have been seen, in the first instance, only by the presumably very small number of Twitter-users who followed both individuals.
In the first instance, only the reaction rates are pre-computed.
This would be like a physician with a headache, who experiences pain in the first instance just like ordinary folk and only subsequently applies medical terminology to the headache (Compare King, 1988).
In the first instance, not only different applications were used for training and validation data, but in addition the developers had no relation in terms of education, nationality, work, and so forth.
In the first instance we only consider active and passive Ca2+ transport (equation (31) in Methods).
This is because, at least in the first instance, editors only communicate with the corresponding author, and the primary data resides at the host institution.
Palestinian officials believe that – in the first instance – they require only a straight majority under Fifa rules with 75% being required to ratify and renew a suspension.
