It may have been the first instance of hypermiling an Explorer Sport, and perhaps the only instance.
This was perhaps the first instance of a rights lawyer being held under a process called judicial detention.
Perhaps the cleverest instance of plant signalling involves two insect species, the first in the role of pest and the second as its exterminator.
Glasses designed by Karl Köpping in Berlin, with long, waving stems and tulip-like bowls, were perhaps the extreme instance of Art Nouveau style applied to glassware.
Perhaps the best instance of an artist the Fishers collected in depth is Richter, the world's most revered (and expensive) living painter.
Perhaps the smartest instance of this is the 2014 Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, made by London-based artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
In American fiction, perhaps the groundbreaking instance of this genre is Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel "The Man in the High Castle," which imagines that the Axis had won World War II.
"We Can Breakthrough" is the perhaps the clearest instance of my own co-opting of another's harmonic discoveries (I even use a sample at one point!), to the point where it may be considered nothing more than a rearrangement.
Last night, in an effort to jog viewers' memories, the network broadcast an annotated version of season three's finale — perhaps the first instance of VH1-style pop-up technology on a nighttime drama.
The colors in the book were dim and blurred, and so Mr. Thanh was using his own judgment as he painted -- perhaps the greatest instance of personal creativity among all the painters working on this summer evening.
