The image from February 2002, shows the barest beginnings of the artificial archipelago.

And that cost is only the bare beginning.

Something that the death of your little friend was just the barest beginning of.

But only the barest beginning has been made.

I heard the bare beginning of an alarm, but I was already reaching for my helmet.

As a bare beginning, it meant the freedom to command any number of juniors or scholars.

Seeing the barest beginnings of something never realized is an entirely different matter, of course.

Telling Burzoe and the other women would be only the barest beginning of his complications there.

It is no more than a toehold, just a bare beginning.

It was a bare beginning, a first step, but Blade must begin somewhere and at once.