Sentence examples for preliminary that from inspiring English sources

These teams play a round-robin preliminary that begins Saturday and ends on Feb. 12.

That survey, extending through the entire length of the ca non, is described by him as a 'close preliminary;' that is, a line very near location, without an actual location of the curves.

But we do know that exposure to light suppresses the secretion of melatonin, a hormone that influences circadian rhythms, and there's some experimental evidence (it's very preliminary) that lower melatonin levels might explain the association with cancer.

Aides to Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell distributed local news accounts reporting that plans to rebuild the bridge are so preliminary that new jobs are unlikely before 2013, at the earliest.

Then there was the heartbreak of the Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, victim of the Games' most notorious glitch, and thousands of swimming fans cheered Eric Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea in a 100-meter freestyle preliminary that he swam alone, and with much difficulty.

The VSSP research is so preliminary that Cuban scientists' documents still have to be translated from Spanish into English, says Dr. Kelvin Lee, chair of Roswell Park's department of immunology.

She has done other preliminary research that found that these kinds of illusions might possibly help people in chronic pain.

Focus on four preliminary factors that can shape the outcome.

And a Fire Department spokesman, Lt. Kevin Ganun, gave a preliminary account that differed from Mr. Gonzalez's.

The U.S. ran a time in the preliminary heats that would have gotten them silver.

The lawsuit seeks a preliminary injunction that could delay BP Amoco's proposed $33 billion purchase of ARCO.