Sentence examples for was virtually the first from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Polina was virtually the first lady of the Soviet state after the suicide of Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, in December 1932.

Version 0.91 was virtually the first public release, providing support through mailing lists hosted at Pixar.

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.

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

The work, begun late last year by a new owner, will create what will be virtually the first new row house on the block in more than a century.

Yet it is virtually the first thing Saville says to me when I walk into his studio/home in Clerkenwell, London.

With all that glamour and celebrity, with his being virtually the first great American hero to delight America's emerging entertainment society?