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Usage examples of "at the start".
He hasn't bothered with Mr Marinville because, at the start of the summer, Mr Marinville gave him five dollars not to deliver the Shopper.
I'm sure she can confirm that I took one roast beef sandwich into my office at the start of the period, and I hadn't gone anywhere by the time the first shot was fired.
And yet there'd been something wrong at the start, when he'd addressed commands to the system and it hadn't responded.