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Example sentences for: prelude

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In response to the governor«s initiative to expand the state«s IT workforce, proposals were made for a program to recruit and fund college and university students willing to study technology management as a prelude to becoming part of the state government«s labor force.
It was suggested [ 3 ] that acquisition of these new functions (either by symbiosis or HGT) permitted previously free-living nematodes to expand their range into a new ecological niche (the plant) as a prelude to speciation into parasitic forms.
Since we have to do that anyway--even as a prelude to privatization--why don't we do it first?
In a prelude or alap, which in full-length recitals can last half an hour, the lead musician seems to grope around until he reaches the main theme and its many variations take hold and patterns emerge from the apparent confusion.
"The first strike would therefore only be the prelude to a long offensive."