in the first place vs lastly

in the first place

prep
  • at all, even (typically in non-negated statements) 

  • to begin with; earlier; firstly; originally; at the start, 

lastly

adv
  • Used to signal that the speaker is about to yield control of the conversation. 

  • Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions. 

How often have the words in the first place and lastly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )