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<!-- (audio) Alice: Most of that was in the initial setup and early development stages. -->

--instructions--

Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.

--fillInTheBlank--

--sentence--

Most of that was in the BLANK and BLANK stages.

--blanks--

initial setup

--feedback--

These two words refer to the very beginning of a project.


early development

--feedback--

These two words refer to the first part of building the product.

--explanation--

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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