First, firstly or at first?
First can be an adjective or an adverb and refers to the person or thing that comes before all others in order, time, amount, quality or importance: …

Examples of firstly

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Firstly, one might hold that philosophical ideas should stand or fall on their content, rather than upon the reputation of the philosopher concerned.
Firstly, these suspensions are cyclic terms that the tables cannot handle.
Firstly, all the signals in a group must have the same type.
Firstly, note that with a concave tax schedule, the tax burden rises relatively steeply when pollution levels are low.
Firstly, alien insects causing economic damage are more likely and more rapidly discovered than insects that are economically harmless.
Firstly, no control agency can allow itself to jeopardize the relationship of trust it enjoys with its political principals.
Firstly, elimination of regional reservoirs of infection through control at the national level, as described above.
Firstly, the average starting age for instrumental lessons is about eleven.
Firstly, there has been an increase in the amount of power and control exerted by the federal gover nment.
Firstly, those holding power and new aspirants have to master the management of neopatrimonial exchanges.
Firstly, they were ignorant of fiqh; only through the concrete process of administering the shari ah did they learn about it at all.
Firstly, alterations in the share of regions in total production worldwide and differing in loss rates to pests affect total loss rates.
To repeat, there is firstly no documentary or topographical evidence that the eagre ever travelled so far upstream.
Firstly, a licensed position acquires its ability to a-license melodic material from its p-licensor.
Firstly, all responsibilities in the field of social security were initially in the hands of the cantons.
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