first stage
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Ministers said Monday's allocation was the first stage of the 10-year programme and more than £16bn remains to be allocated outside London.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The first stage of the PGA Tour’s postseason, the St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., invites the top 70 players in the season-long standings—and Koepka wasn’t one of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The first stage would focus on warming the planet.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. on Friday said it had successfully launched its Long March 10B rocket and recovered the vehicle’s first stage using a “net capture system.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Thus, many wild animal species reached the first stage in the sequence of animal-human relations leading to domestication, but only a few emerged at the other end of that sequence as domestic animals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
