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Discover LudwigThe phrase "advance draft" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a preliminary version of a document that is shared for review or feedback before the final version is completed. Example: "Please review the advance draft of the report and provide your comments by the end of the week."
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We were worried recently when we saw an advance draft of legal agreements between federal regulators and the nation's big banks to address and correct foreclosure abuses.
Asked to read an advance draft of a speech by the isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg in 1945, he suggested that Vandenberg advocate a major treaty with the Soviet Union as a way to cement the friendship with the United States.
A senior Obama administration official, speaking in Seoul, said the advance draft of a joint communiqué under consideration by the member nations would adopt a set of "indicative guidelines" that set common standards for assessing trade balances and prompting diplomatic discussions about them when they grow too large.
In an advance draft of the announcement, Wal-Mart said it planned to source a total of $20 billion in products from women-owned businesses in the United States over the next five years, which works out to an average of $4 billion a year, versus the $2.5 billion a year it currently spends, and to double what it buys from women-owned businesses globally by 2016.
An advance draft shows that exposure to hexavalent chromium (widely used in industry and the cause of the mysterious illness in the film "Erin Brockovich"), as well as lead and other toxins, leave people unable to work to their full ability, imposes a burden of disease throughout their lives and cuts short their lifespans.
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None of the lawyers involved had been given the normal advance drafts of the judgment to check for mistakes and to prepare their submissions.
Chicago school officials, including Arne Duncan, the system's chief executive, had been briefed on the studies, including initial reports of raw data and advance drafts of the reports about a month ago.
AHK - created and designed the reported technical advance, drafted and revised the submitted manuscript, and gave final approval of the published manuscript.
MJS – created, designed and evaluated the reported technical advance, drafted and revised the submitted manuscript, and gave final approval of the published manuscript.
MT – created, designed and programmed the reported technical advance, drafted and revised the submitted manuscript, and gave final approval of the published manuscript.
The physical map we present here can be of great utility in advancing draft genome sequences of Theobroma cacao into high quality reference genomes.
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