Dutch
- in eerste instantie (aanvankelijk, eerst, in het begin)
- in een eerste instantie
English
- primarily
- principally
- the primary
- (court of) first instance
- at first
- at first glance
- at first sight (bij aanvankelijke beschouwing)
- at the outset
- at the start
- basically[1]
- first of all
- first and foremost
- in the early stages
- in the first instance
- in the first place
- in the first stage
- in the first step
- in/at the beginning
- initially
- originally
- specifically (special meaning!)
- to begin with
- to start with
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Quotations
in the first instance = ‘In the first place or at the first stage of a proceeding’:
• the appointment will be for three years in the first instance
• He said soldiers may have been acting in self-defense in the second instance.
(Oxforddictionaries.com)
