Sentence examples similar to it's a first stage from inspiring English sources

Team Sky sports director Steven de Jongh said: "It's a first stage-race win for Mark and he's pretty happy with it - I think there should be more in the future too.

For many people entering the field, "it is a second stage in their career," says SCIP's Garrison.

It is a first stage that feeds into subsequent processing blocks for identifying, localizing, and tracking radiating sources.

For Kittel, it was a fifth stage win and a repeat of last year's opening stage victory in Corsica.

It was a fourth stage victory in the race for the Astana rider, who won in Sheffield, the Vosges and the Alps.

It was a third successive stage win for the 26-year-old Olympic and world road-race champion, who outsprinted Giorgia Bronzini in Bury St Edmunds.

It's entering a second stage, adding extras to help differentiate it from the rest of the word processing pack (led by Microsoft Office but including dozens more) in its bid to sign on more enterprises and prosumers as customers.

North Korea warned Monday that the actions it was announcing were only a "first stage".

This might be only the first stage in a long and complex deliberation about whether a given type of wrongful conduct should be criminalized, and pragmatic issues would certainly need to loom large in later stages of that process: but my suggestion here is that it is an essential first stage.

It's a stage performance, the first week of school".

The Rio+20 Earth summit is only two months away, and it is an important first staging post.