preliminary evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreliminaryandevidence
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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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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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Thepreliminaryevidencejust reviewed documents that, similar to adults with bipolar disorder, children and adolescents with this condition also display significant sleep disturbance.
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These observations are consistent with apreliminaryevidenceof forward acceleration of high-energy electrons.
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There waspreliminaryevidenceto suggest that infantile coccidiosis in badgers may be associated with impaired growth and increased mortality.
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Abundantpreliminaryevidencehas already been marshaled for the participation of gold in the seventeenth-century money transfer from west to east.
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Preliminaryevidencesuggests that this is the case in general, including in cases of cognitive coordination.
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The generation of hard bremsstrahlung, photonuclear reactions, andpreliminaryevidencefor positron-electron pair production will be discussed.
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Preliminaryevidencesuggests that this may be the result of mode coupling.
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The results also provide somepreliminaryevidencethat older drivers' ratings of their ability reflect their level of confidence, rather than their personality.
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Preliminaryevidencesuggests that this may be correct.
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There ispreliminaryevidencethat individuals who are small in early life have a shorter lifespan.
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We have also providedpreliminaryevidencethat parenting moderates the effects of prenatal exposure to cigarettes.
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Preliminaryevidencesuggests that high levels of distress persist well after bereavement.
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There ispreliminaryevidencethat when citizens protest against an industrial/ developmental activity in such countries, a successful resolution to the conflict is rarely achieved.
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On this point we havepreliminaryevidencethat health retirees experience lower levels of income in retirement than other retirees.
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Preliminaryevidencealso suggests that there are scale economies in implementing regulation: smaller firms incur higher costs in implementing public regulation than larger firms.
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Furthermore,preliminaryevidenceis now to hand from the recruitment phase of our genetic study currently in progress.
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Preliminaryevidencesuggests that countries that have adopted external school accountability policies face implementation obstacles.
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However, theoretical models and a systematic econometric analysis that includes all relevant control variables must complement thepreliminaryevidenceto draw solid conclusions.
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While no controlled and prospective studies have been conducted during deep hypothermic arrest,preliminaryevidencehas shown hyperglycemia negatively to affect outcome.
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Incorporating new words into the lexicon :preliminaryevidencefor language hierarchies in two-year-old children.
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