at first

“At first I couldn’t believe Joe sees that in me,” says Berger, “but then I realized I gotta trust this guy. He knows what he’s talking about.”

At first the investigators asked whether they were related, Dean claims — then they tried a different line of questioning.

People notice when economic apple carts start to turn over, and they even notice when you start losing in every courtroom your new staff of genius DOJ lawyers has been forced to walk into to face lawsuits that mounted slowly at first but are now reaching a kind of national crest.

The federal government would cover 100% of the new expense at first, ultimately declining to 90%, where it is now.

Badenoch also told Newsnight's Nick Watt that she felt she was finding her "groove" as leader of the opposition, and was learning from the early experience of Margaret Thatcher who she said was "terrible at PMQs" at first.