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For anybody with a pre-existing condition just like with the House plan, you are a clear first-off winner immediately if you have a pre-existing condition.

CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2009 2009

Forgetting the coldness factor for now, and admitting first-off that dinner parties, supper clubs and all sorts of communal cooking activities can create just the same lags in time ...

Not Eating Out in New York » 2009 » June 2009

He couldn't afford to have them recognize him first-off by driving right into their critical zone.

Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety] Saintcrow, Lilith 2005

Er, first-off, that many repeat hits might be why it isn't working so well for the rest of us....

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

We've just got to the place where I'd have dived first-off if I had only one chance at it.

Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Gordon Stuart

"I sure did ride fast to locate you, but your daddy wanted me to be sure to tell you, first-off, not to git skeered."

The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences Frank V. Webster

He had landed in the Fijis first-off and had drifted over to Hello Island, taking pictures of places and natives and so on, intending to use 'em in

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But Stern, first-off, had wrenched a marble slab from the stairway.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

"I haven't said a word to Patty yet; and if she's a sensible young woman, she'll give me my conge first-off."

Half a Rogue Harold MacGrath 1901

"Did you notice, sir, that I turned the light right up at the sky, first-off?"

The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater 1895