Sentence examples for preliminary and only from inspiring English sources

Mortality rates are 3% versus 17 or 18%." The surgeons were confident about the benefits of this innovation, even though data on safety and effectiveness were preliminary and only short-term follow-up information was available.

However, the book does not include necessary proofs of the preliminary results and only provides pointers to the literature.

One company executive cautioned that the talks were preliminary and involved only a small part of Lernout & Hauspie.

The Citibank survey, which is conducted annually, is preliminary and includes only a fraction of the 280 firms whose financial results are summarized in the bank's 1999 report.

These estimates are very preliminary and based only on 21 exons.

This cut-off point has to be considered as preliminary and is only an estimate of traumatisation.

While our observations are preliminary and in only one direction (i.e. we did not cross C. echinata males with C. crassa females) we predict that hybridization between these species is unlikely.

Although they emphasize the potential of future therapeutic uses of such compounds, the present data are rather preliminary and can only be seen as a first modest step in this direction (the compound is of low affinity and shows little species-specificity).

But as already mentioned this comparison is only indicative and preliminary and is done only because the national Greek norms have not been published.

Much of the research on this is fairly preliminary, and we are only just starting to understand how to nudge our kids in that direction.

Mr. Brahimi presented his ideas at a news conference on Wednesday, saying the proposals were preliminary and based on only 10 days of consultations.