very beginning

This is just the very, very beginning, too.

That “I Like Movies” is set in the early 2000s is clear from the very beginning, thanks to a number of canny period details.

Despite difficult times, and at the very beginning not liking cycling's "helmets, Lycra and baffling" terminology, she sees her future in the sport.

“In the very beginning I was kind of whispery, like ‘Hey, you guys can move if you want’.

“The thing that was most interesting to me from the very beginning, is what happens when somebody who is at the vanguard of political radicalism in their youth gets older?”