Sentence examples for preliminary way from inspiring English sources

When our turn came, my husband spoke briefly about how we were exploring things in a very preliminary way.

He said he was uncertain whether the pricks were an effort "to get information from him, or whether it was a preliminary way of killing him".

[New York Sun] In a very preliminary way, the city is looking at three Queens sites to replace the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

Julie Richardson, a Virginia mother of two elementary-school-age boys, attended as a preliminary way to research colleges, she said, since she "didn't know the difference between a Harvard and a Michigan".

The corporation is working "in a preliminary way" with Liberty Property Trust of Philadelphia, Mr. Goldman said, on a commercial building on at least one of the other properties.

This result confirms, in a preliminary way, our argument that protest frames are a key to understanding government intervention.

These statements were then re-read, condensed and summarised as preliminary ways of understanding the phenomenon.

Not that this has happened this year: Synthonia were knocked out of the very first qualifying round – the extra preliminary round – way back in August, drawing 0-0 at home to nearby Consett AFC, then losing the replay 8-0.

A preliminary four-way ANOVA was conducted to compare developmental effects on the two components, with repeated measures of component, window and session, with group as a between-subjects factor.

Preliminary one-way ANOVAs were used to test for possible curvilinear trends.

In this way, preliminary seismic velocity models may be made to guide future planetary exploration missions that involve landers whose sensors include seismometers to determine the planet's detailed internal structure (Dehant et al. 2012).