It takes more than a week for the preliminary preparation of each pot.

On Long Island, emergency organizations are beginning preliminary preparations for a severe storm.

After the Ford Foundation conducted some preliminary preparations, the overseas studies program began in 1957.

However, we ought to make some preliminary preparations just in case.

By the second day after landing preliminary preparations were going forward nicely.

In teaching, as in other trades, the period and scope of preliminary preparation continue to expand.

This preliminary preparation takes weeks, sometimes months; the theory being, of course, to avoid duplication of effort.

The preliminary preparations for the feast had consumed days, but the work was nothing compared with the task ahead.

Of course, such applications have financial costs and require time for the preliminary preparation and the final implementation.

The factories are so complicated that the boy brought in contact with them, unless he has some preliminary preparation, is apt to become confused.