Preliminary data suggest that most students have a long way to go.

For the first half of the year, preliminary data showed 8,703 new units.

All counts for the current year are considered preliminary data and subject to change.

"Looking at the preliminary data, everything suggests we should move forward," he said.

Preliminary data indicate the 1991 rate may be up by an additional 30 percent.

According to preliminary data, the proportion for 2007 was the same as in 2006 (3).

Have we got a complete set of preliminary data ready for analysis yet?

According to the preliminary data, 63 percent of students who had taken the exam failed.

It said preliminary data indicated that the growth rates increased in the first five months of 1992.

There was little change in the first nine months of last year, according to preliminary data from about half the state's 234 hospitals, he added.