The phrase "a preliminary glimpse of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial overview or insight into a topic or subject matter.
Example: "In this report, we will provide a preliminary glimpse of the upcoming changes in the company's policy."
Alternatives: "an initial look at" or "a first insight into".
Senators and aides said that Monday's vote offered a preliminary glimpse of how many senators, roughly, would vote for the bill's final passage.
A preliminary glimpse of this type of analysis was achieved before structural genomics efforts with the glycolytic pathway and efforts are underway for many other pathways, including that of catecholamine metabolism.
This study provides a preliminary glimpse of the online training aimed at, and completed by the US child care workforce.
Professors often get unique insight into how budding entrepreneurs work and strategize and sometimes they'll also get a preliminary glimpse of an idea with great potential.
A lot of the ideas are OK and not beyond that, but every now and then you hear a really good idea coming from students who need some help". Professors often get unique insight into how budding entrepreneurs work and strategize and sometimes they'll also get a preliminary glimpse of an idea with great potential.
Given its limitations as described above, this review must be seen as a preliminary glimpse of the total literature on health care information needs.
In sum, these results provide a preliminary glimpse into the demographics of online course takers, the nature of offered online training, and trends in training participation.
A useful preliminary glimpse of the links between climate change and altered ecology for trichostrongyles can be derived from basic information about pre-patent periods and the relationships between environmental temperatures and larval survival and development rates as determined in the laboratory and in the field.
The results give a preliminary glimpse into the molecular nature of the lichen symbiosis and the transcriptional space of this resilient organism as we have identified KEGG pathways and GO terms associated with the lichen sequences.
To provide a preliminary glimpse into the biological characterization of 4 an antiviral assay was conducted.
Data in Figure 6C afford a preliminary glimpse at the potential coding properties of the LeuRS and HisRS Urzymes.
