If that was all, we wouldn't really need her in the first place.

What we need in the first place is campaign finance reform.

Why, one wonders, is such a control needed in the first place?

"Perhaps we don't need such equipment in the first place."

Why do we need any sort of plan in the first place?

Why we need them in the first place is important.

It was a color reproduction of something that had never been needed in the first place.

What I very much regret, though, is that this sort of thing should be needed in the first place.

"Are you saying she didn't need those drugs in the first place?"

All that fuss and he hadn't even been needed in the first place.