The phrase "an initial brief of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary summary or overview of a topic, project, or situation.
Example: "Before we proceed with the project, I would like to present an initial brief of our objectives and goals."
Alternatives: "a preliminary summary of" or "an overview of".
In addition, the Navy is "husbanding" its aircraft carriers, according to a senior military officer who has received an initial briefing on the conclusions of the war game.
After an initial brief gasp of collective stunned silence, South Africans have talked of little else than the death of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
The use of LTC services rapidly increased after an initial brief period of service underutilization (Sugihara, 2006).
Various types of sham TENS have been proposed including units that are identical in appearance but just deliver an initial brief period of stimulation at the start and then faded out [29].
In this patient, the multimodal therapy was stopped after 30 months because after an initial, brief period of compliance, the patient refused thiosulphate treatment and continued to show poor adherence to cinacalcet, phosphate binders and to the prescribed dialysis schedule as well as to suggested parathyroidectomy, so that his hyperparathyroidism remained uncontrolled.
Screening will consist of an initial brief medical history, including pharmacotherapy and screen of AF symptoms.
Following an initial brief introduction to corpus-based analyses of academic writing, the article zooms in on learner corpora, describing some of the findings that emerge from corpus studies of L2 learners' EAP writing.
We prepared our system by performing an initial brief energy minimization with 200 steps of the full simulation system, followed by 2 500ps equilibration runs.
According to Predictive's founder and managing director Dr Theo Gazos the project has proven useful beyond its initial brief of simply testing business cases.
At an initial briefing session, participants completed baseline measures of trait rumination and depressive symptoms.
