in the first place

And what even is it in the first place?

Well, it all has to do with why there are galaxies in the first place: the big bang.

It was Allen's idea to have it in the first place.

It's about rethinking how homes are created in the first place.

And, if there aren’t any high spots in your pipes, there won’t be anywhere for it to be trapped in the first place.

So, how do scientists calculate the effects of climate change in the first place?

Okay Sandwich 7208 asks, "How did Iran become an Islamic country in the first place?"

Didn't have enough of a reason to file this lawsuit in the first place.

Orders to let him go, I don't know why he is in there in the first place, I don't know.

That commitment gives companies the confidence to invest in it in the first place, and it can bring vaccines into existence that would otherwise never get made.

And then there's the reward, and the reward is actually why the habit happens in the first place.

Before you can correct the course, you need to know where you are in the first place, and there are a few ways to do it.

Plus it means we keep our windows and doors closed, so less chance of moths getting in in the first place.

We're gonna go in there, looking for a deal on the Strait of Hormuz and end up coming out with an $800 raw silk bedspread they never wanted in the first place.

GLORIA STEINEM: And I began to see what, of course, the radical feminists were saying in the first place, which was that it is a caste problem and that women are an oppressed group.

That’s not even including the fossil fuel emissions required to refine the oil before it gets to the pump, or to produce the steel the cars are made of in the first place.