preliminary assessment

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preliminary
adjective[before noun]
uk
/prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/us
/prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/
coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing ...
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assessment
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈses.mənt/us
/əˈses.mənt/
the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something, or the judgment or decision that ...
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I then made apreliminaryassessmentof the sizes of the elements.
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These tests provided the principal means at that time for screening wheat lines under selection in apreliminaryassessmentof bread-making quality.
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Specifically, we seek to make apreliminaryassessmentof the significance of wage labour income for the survival of female-headed households.
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Apreliminaryassessmentof the medical and functional factors associated with vehicle crashes by older adults.
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This will allow for apreliminaryassessmentof how risks have changed over time.
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For both data sets we also performed apreliminaryassessmentof host-parasite relationships.
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While the approach adopted in this article has provided a usefulpreliminaryassessmentof energy import security risks, there are at least two methodological limitations to the analysis.
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This study utilizes data already available from disease surveillance and from different national databases and is therefore a resource-effective method for apreliminaryassessmenton environmental risk factors.
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In addition to showing off the candidate's achievements, this ritual enabled the state to make apreliminaryassessmentof his fortune and what might be demanded as death duties.
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Nevertheless, we believe that we have been able to assemble enough evidence to give apreliminaryassessment of the general patterns of biotic and environmental change taking place.
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Our experiment provides apreliminaryassessmentof how the seeds of four pioneer species vary in survival and susceptibility to fungal infection when planted together in the forest understorey.
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Apreliminaryassessmentusing multiple correspondence analysis to relate categories of practices to each other and to the three management style groups, using only 1998 data, reveals a distinct pattern.
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Hispreliminaryassessmentis that this has produced a 'limping' rule of law, since it was imposed from above, unaccompanied by any changes in social values especially of the elites.
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I would like, therefore, to have yourpreliminaryassessment.
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Apreliminaryassessmenthas been made but it is not possible to be definitive until the receiver has determined the company's future.
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We do not ourselves see the necessity for that because processing is already able to be the subject of scrutiny ofpreliminaryassessment.
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Such goods would therefore be held for up to 48 hours while thepreliminaryassessmentand view are formed by the trading standards officer.
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Officials have made apreliminaryassessmentof the main body of the report including the conclusions and recommendations.
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Thepreliminaryassessmentis encouraging, but some adjustment to monitoring frequencies will be necessary for the 1987 bathing season.
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If an applicant decides not to pursue a visit visa application after thepreliminaryassessment, the visa application form may be retained.
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