preliminary survey

collocation in English

meaningsofpreliminaryandsurvey

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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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survey
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɜː.veɪ/us
/ˈsɝː.veɪ/
an examination of opinions, behaviour, etc., made by asking ...
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(Definition ofpreliminaryandsurveyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, apreliminarysurveyof restitution cases suggests that it was more common for wives to bring these cases than husbands.
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The present idea is to have apreliminarysurveyto cost forty thousand pound-calculated at £100 a mile.
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With thepreliminarysurvey, a 'science of urbanism' was born (p. 27), related to the administration.
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By way of apreliminarysurveyit is important to state a few trivial but nonetheless essential features of the records on the list.
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Women who were lonely were identified during apreliminarysurvey, selected for the study and assigned randomly to an experimental or a control group.
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Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to gather primary data in three phases:preliminarysurvey, main survey and follow-up survey.
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The results of this study and of thepreliminarysurveyform the subject matter of the present paper.
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The author has opened up an important but largely unexplored subject with apreliminarysurveywhich covers much ground at some speed.
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One of the objects of thepreliminarysurveymentioned above was to select a suitable locality in which to carry out ecological investigations on the two species of locusts.
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They are likely, together with thepreliminarysurveyby the divisional road engineer, to be completed within the next six months.
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I well recollect an incident in ourpreliminarysurveywhich well illustrates the state of things as it is.
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The report of thepreliminarysurveyis still awaited.
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Thispreliminarysurveyled to a series of more detailed economic and technical studies of particular industries.
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The cost of thepreliminarysurvey, including examination of alternative routes, was £12,000.
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Apreliminarysurveyof a number of possible sites has been made with a view to the selection of those most suitable for industrial development.
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The anticipation of trouble which she had formed in the month'spreliminarysurveywas not disappointed.
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I am satisfied that in this case all reasonable steps were taken by the officers who carried out thepreliminarysurvey.
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Thepreliminarysurveyhas now been completed for more serious work, and a recorder has been installed to gauge the flow of water.
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Somepreliminarysurveywork has been carried out but any furtherance of this or actual development would depend very much on the security situation.
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