"preliminary choice" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a decision made before further research or contemplation. For example, "I had to make a preliminary choice based on limited information."
"And where will you be buried?" "I've made a preliminary choice," Solzhenitsyn said.
In Le Monde, Noémie Luciani regrets the heroine's lack of ambiguity and of ambivalence: "The great fault of her cause is to have imposed herself on her own: no preliminary choice, no temptation to lose herself or to betray herself".
One important conclusion is that the numerical procedure is extremely powerful for the preliminary choice of the hull form.
A set of Monte Carlo simulation was used to design the neutron collimator, to determine the preliminary choice of the materials to be employed in the collimator design.
This involved face-to-face completion of the survey by an adult convenience sample (n=20), with qualitative exploration of understanding of the instrument along with estimation of a preliminary choice model.
In order to reduce as much as possible the role of preliminary choices, a method based on artificial neural networks (ANN) is proposed.
These are my preliminary choices.
In our data, motor plans were typically formed quickly, corresponding to preliminary choices.
Within this context, we are developing a framework to evaluate the effect of preliminary design choices on the survivability and on the demisability of a spacecraft configuration.
To assess the optimal proportion of menthol to be used in our tests, we performed preliminary multiple-choice tests using a range of menthol containing food, and measured the number of eggs laid on each type of food.
There is no evidence that these ethnic disadvantages are a result of preliminary qualifications, the choice of subject and study type, or of a low socio-economic position of immigrant parents.
