Sentence examples for virtually the first from inspiring English sources

"It was virtually the first station to be completed in structural form," he wrote.

But this week, for virtually the first time, O'Reilly looks vulnerable.

The police pickup trucks were virtually the first organized recovery efforts seen in many parts of the city.

By contrast climate change was virtually the first thing he mentioned when he got off the plane.

"As soon as I heard where Spoty was, it was virtually the first thing in my diary," said McIlroy.

"Scoop was virtually the first person who came to work for me in the campaign," he said, and put his arm around him.

In the late Seventies, Brian Eno began to work as producer and motivational guru with Talking Heads but soon became virtually the fifth member of the band.

They have yet to taste success on the road this year and were well beaten by what was virtually the second string of the weakest of Wales's four regions.

In a 2001 interview with the BBC he talked about his early love for Laurence Olivier's claustrophobic 1948 film "Hamlet," connecting it to the intimacy of a Vermeer: "I liked films which made you feel you are actually inside an interior, feeling virtually the fourth wall behind you, like in Dutch paintings".

In fact, virtually the second that Rogers stepped on stage on February 19 for his presentation, The Intercept published a story with details of how the NSA used some shadowy techniques to get ahold of encryption keys to millions of SIM cards.

In fact, virtually the second that Rogers stepped on stage on February 19 for his presentation at the Canadian security conference, the Intercept published a story with details of how the NSA used some shadowy techniques to get a hold of encryption keys to millions of SIM cards.