A preliminary experiment suggested that foods like cinnamon buns had the desired effect.

The preliminary experiment we made was dropped because we went into other things.

This time was selected based on results of preliminary experiments (data not shown).

She can't risk using the remaining western toads for her preliminary experiments - their population is too fragile.

However, only preliminary experiments such as these have so far been performed.

We've built one, naturally, to do our preliminary experiments.

These are preliminary experiments and we have much more to learn.

Some weeks before the actual experiment, a preliminary experiment was conducted.

"Before you try to go to very expensive places, you ought to do preliminary experiments," he said.

Dr. Martin and his team were preparing preliminary experiments on the mice to see how various drugs might act in their bodies.