Synonym: earlier, in the beginning, originally, primarily, to begin with. Similar words: the first person, first prize, marketplace, first, at first, first of all, place, at first sight. Meaning: adv. 1. before now 2. of primary import.
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31. I should never have gone in the first place!
32. But were they really freeholders in the first place?
33. In the first place it comprised by far the largest number of workers in one industry.
34. First, how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk, without consulting us in the first place.
35. In the first place, it was quite useless to preach ready made doctrine to them.
36. Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place.
37. In the first place, the decline might simply be seen as an inevitable feature of the maturity of any industrialized society.
38. They return to the behaviors that led to the crisis in the first place, and plague returns with a vengeance.
39. In the first place, the scheme only operates for five years, with no guarantee of continuation.
40. His aim is to stop illegal gatherings in the first place.
41. In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of.
42. To ease non-marital breakups:-Remind yourself why you moved in in the first place.
43. Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
44. He didn't remember being given that form; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place.
45. In the first place, it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed.
46. But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place.
47. They're sure to give the go-ahead, otherwise they wouldn't have chucked it out in the first place.
48. For one thing, it begs the question of how alcohol depresses brain function in the first place.
49. That was one of the most powerful attractions of appearing on television in the first place.
50. In the first place, everyone travels by car and therefore everyone has first-hand knowledge of how awful the roads are.
51. The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large.
52. In the first place he disputed the contention of Oldfield's lawyer that the original, 1972 contract was unfair.
53. I alternate the direction of these strokes, imitating the direction I use to apply the pastel in the first place.
54. Of course! If he thinks it was his idea in the first place, he's bound to agree. What an inspiration!
55. In the first place, New York is very cold in the winter, and in the second place I don't want to move anyway.
56. It was also one of the most economical, which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place.
57. Just how is the extra money injected into people's portfolios in the first place?
58. A re-check should never be necessary(Sentence dictionary), since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place.
59. I don't want to blow my own trumpet, but it was me who came up with the idea for the project in the first place.
60. Listen, if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place.
More similar words: the first person, first prize, marketplace, first, at first, first of all, place, at first sight, in place, replace, first and foremost, workplace, take place, out of place, in place of, placement, replacement, in the future, take the place of, palace, burst into, in that, in the way, in the end, in the air, complaint, in the dark, in the past, in the way of, in the open.