"a preliminary determination" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to an initial or early assessment or decision made before further information or analysis is considered. Example: The committee has made a preliminary determination to move forward with the project, pending a more thorough evaluation of its feasibility.
The goal of a phase II trial is to make a preliminary determination regarding the activity and tolerability of a new treatment and thus to determine whether the treatment warrants further study in the phase III setting.
It should reach a preliminary determination in 45 days.
The record number in 2012 is a preliminary determination because of margins of error in the surveys.
Investigators still do not have enough information, he said, to make a preliminary determination as to whether the shooting appeared justified.
The record said that the association's enforcement division had made a preliminary determination that violations of securities regulations occurred in Mr. Grubman's research on Winstar.
Their bodies, all of which were recovered, were positioned in a way that led investigators to make a preliminary determination that these may have been suicide attacks.
In overruling the petitioner's objection to use of the confession, the trial judge, however, made an apparently preliminary determination that it was voluntary and 'conditionally' admissible.
As an example of a global catalog, we use the Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE) catalog, maintained by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which combines data from multiple regional and global subcatalogs.
Auto industry representatives, meanwhile, accused the EPA of hastening its preliminary determination before a new administration takes office.
the petitioner, in a proceeding in which the preliminary determination by the administering authority under section 1673b(b) of this title was negative.
As reported by Bloomberg on Friday, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s failure to properly disclose to wealthy asset management clients certain conflicts of interest resulted in a record $30 million whistleblower award (preliminary determination) by the CFTC.
