at the beginning

"Lately it's started to slow down, because at the beginning we were receiving 10 or 15 new cases a day, but now we're only receiving two or three cases a day," he said.

“A Man on the Inside” is a reminder of how much “The Good Place” was a product of its time, having debuted at the beginning of the first Trump administration and steadily amping up its examination of what it means to be good until it landed with an uplifting, tear-soaked conclusion in 2020.

When comparing land and ocean, Sippel noticed a systematic deviation: at the beginning of the 20th century, ocean temperatures were lower than in previous decades, while over land air temperatures remained relatively constant.

So right at the beginning they found a boot that worked, height-wise, heel-wise.

"So that was puzzling at the beginning. I remember Marco came in and told me once that the experiment worked, but only in half of the plate. And when we looked at it more carefully, we started seeing that there was a gradient of cell density that seemed to correlate with differences in patterning."