Sentence examples for likely the earliest from inspiring English sources

Very likely the earliest system of written symbols in ancient Mesopotamia was a system of symbols for numbers.

Castro e Almeida's Fortuna Films was registered both in Lisbon and in Paris and was likely the earliest Portuguese attempt to establish an international film company.

The vase painting from the sixth century B.C., Ms. Mayor concluded, is most likely "the earliest artistic record of a vertebrate fossil discovery".

But Mr. King's 1983 short story "The Word Processor," Mr. Kirschenbaum ventured, is "likely the earliest fictional treatment of word processing by a prominent English-language author".

Excavations in the 1920s and 1930s uncovered what is likely the earliest Christian church, a synagogue whose assembly-room walls were painted with biblical scenes, and a shrine to the mysterious Roman god Mithras.

Paul F. Wells a former president of the Society for American Music, wrote in the Black Music Research Journal that slaves were most likely the earliest musicians to combine violin and banjo.

With growing interest in DiNG from schools and units across the university, it's likely the early success of DiNG is just the beginning.

Nothing Eileen Oldaker tried could calm her mother when she called from the nursing home, disoriented and distressed in what was likely the early stages of dementia.

If two different values appear equally likely, the earlier tested is colored and the later tested is gray, although the later tested may turn out to be the ancestral value.

Executives use all these technologies too and they were likely the early adopters.

The next preview, aimed at consumers, will land in the first quarter of 2015, likely the earlier end of that date range.