Sentence examples for long preliminary from inspiring English sources

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about working as screenwriter on Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"... Writer describes getting a long preliminary phone call from….

But the unconcealed preparations for the assault and the long preliminary bombardment had given away any chance of surprise, and the German defenders were well prepared for what was to come.

By Frederic Raphael The New Yorker, June 14 , 1999P. 40 ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about working as screenwriter on Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"... Writer describes getting a long preliminary phone call from Kubrick and receiving a gray photocopy of a novella set in Hapsburg, Vienna, with the author's name and title excised..

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about working as screenwriter on Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"... Writer describes getting a long preliminary phone call from Kubrick and receiving a gray photocopy of a novella set in Hapsburg, Vienna, with the author's name and title excised.

Results show that a long preliminary period of irradiation (∼2000 h) before the exposure to water increases the resistance of PVC surfaces to weather conditions.

This, however, must remain for the present an ideal, to be approached as nearly as possible, but to be reached, if at all, only after a long preliminary labour of which as yet we can only see the very beginning.

BEIJING — The United States softball team turned the toughest day of its week-long preliminary schedule into just another display of the myriad ways that it dominates the sport.

Much of what is known of the event is based on a month-long preliminary hearing held afterward, generally known as the "Spicer Hearings".

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who walked off his Army base in Afghanistan and was held captive for five years by the Taliban, will be court-martialed on desertion and misbehavior charges after his case was referred to a full trial after a three month-long preliminary hearing, his attorney said on Monday.

After an hour-long preliminary hearing in Indio, Calif., a judge ruled there was enough evidence for 70-year-old Virginia Valdez to stand trial on one count each of spousal abuse and assault with a deadly weapon, John Hall, spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, told The Huffington Post.

That inquiry, first disclosed in March, will soon result either in a move to dismiss the allegations or a recommendation for a formal investigation by the House Ethics Committee, as there is a strict time limit of about 100 days for how long such preliminary investigations can go on.