curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-talk-about-numbers-with-a-coworker/6848391874d2d060e4120553.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
Most of that was in the BLANK and BLANK stages.
initial setup
These two words refer to the very beginning of a project.
early development
These two words refer to the first part of building the product.
Initial setup means the first steps in a project — preparing systems, tools, and access before real work starts. For example:
The initial setup of the system took one day. — The beginning part of installing the system took a day.
Early development refers to the beginning of the building process, often including prototypes or base functionality. For example:
In early development, we focused on design. — At the beginning, they worked mostly on how it looked.
In Alice's sentence, she's explaining that most of the money already spent went to these early project stages.
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