At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Second place is just the first place loser.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.