preliminary ** , prelim (abbreviation)

Let me say a preliminary word about each of these now.

Even then, she knew, these would only be preliminary results.

And do some preliminary looking around for a new car.

The data are too preliminary to say yet whether the drug works.

But, of course, by then all the preliminary work had been done.

I do have to ask one or two preliminary questions.

I'm only just beginning to go through them, but I have a preliminary thought.

There will be no preliminary report on what went wrong, he said.

There have been some preliminary studies, but more research is needed.

Although still preliminary, there's new evidence to support the idea.

So he needs a whole lot of preliminary stuff first.

In a preliminary study, he said the response rate was better than 70 percent.

He's not made even a preliminary report, if that is what you mean.

In at least one preliminary way, the interesting development is what has not taken place.

There was, in any case, a good deal of preliminary work to be done.

And, as any man knew, a hard two miles was not the best preliminary to a fight.

The court's 13-2 decision today was only a preliminary finding.

Commission officials said they would issue a preliminary report next month.

Still, preliminary work can make a good fit more likely.

There's also some preliminary evidence that they could help people with heart problems.

It is not clear how quickly the board's preliminary decision could become final.

Thus far I have only the most preliminary of reports.

I should be able to give you a preliminary report in a minute or two.

So kind of you to have done the preliminary survey for me.

After a few preliminaries, I wanted to hear the news.

But all of that had been no more than the preliminaries.

"It would help us all if we got the preliminaries over with."

After these preliminaries, we go on to the next questions in order.

We'll be going to court for preliminaries at the end of the month.

They went through the preliminaries and then got down to business.

Once the preliminaries were out of the way, we would get down to the good stuff.

The previous day she had set a new world record in the preliminaries.

Next time, though, I'd like to start in here and forget the preliminaries.

In the preliminaries only one team was to be eliminated.

In 1783 the firm, after difficult preliminaries, began to issue notes.

Running in three preliminaries and a final was one reason Lewis cut short his program here.

It is a matter of urgency to deal with the preliminaries.

"And if the power were to fail during these preliminaries?"

After the preliminaries, a form was pushed across the table to Charles.

Preliminaries, it seemed clear, were not something she cared for.

Why in these simple preliminaries was I reduced to this?

They would start off to obey, go through all the preliminaries.

"To skip the rest of the preliminaries for the moment, what have you two actually got?"

We sat down and, after the usual police preliminaries, I was asked to tell my story.

Instead, all the current events are seen as mere preliminaries.

"I thought most of the preliminaries had been cleared away."

In the preliminaries, players are given 3 hours to play their matches.

He did not advance past the preliminaries in those events.

There were no preliminaries as he moved between her thighs.