A company lawyer stopped in to say that a preliminary reading of the ruling looked promising.

Our preliminary readings indicate the entire planet is covered by growth like this.

A preliminary reading of consumer sentiment rose to 87 from 84.2 in November, its second consecutive monthly increase.

The bill is currently in early legislative stages and still has not passed a preliminary reading.

From my preliminary readings, I suspect this deviation is deliberate.

Those who worked for bosses they found intimidating had become less sensitive, according to a preliminary reading of the responses.

So, in most cases, the doctors overseas do a preliminary reading, which nonetheless is used to guide treatment of the patient at night.

That makes them ineligible, by themselves, to do even preliminary readings for American hospitals.

This preliminary reading for May is expected to show a confidence level of 88, up slightly from 87.7 in April.

The consumer sentiment index, which had been predicted to come in at 90.3, was higher than the preliminary reading of 90.5, traders said.