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Example sentences for: preliminary

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Although the 2001 data reported in March of this year should be regarded as preliminary (it covered only half a year and reflected the usual kinds of startup problems one would expect of a new data system), it already has produced a wealth of information that allows the Corporation to provide a more complete picture of legal services practice than has ever before been possible on a nationwide basis.
A CIA official told us that the CIA's analysts chose the term "preliminary judgment" because of their notion of how an intelligence standard of proof differed from a legal standard.
To test this more thoroughly, we established a screen to compare the now small pool of preliminary candidates with all other sequences in the public databases.
If multiple EST sequences representing a single gene pass through the first filter, each of those EST sequences will be in the preliminary candidate pool.
Next, the preliminary gene models were re-curated on the unmasked WGS3 heterochromatic sequence scaffolds.