It snowballed from there and that was the start of Button and Bean, the precursor to [sister brand] Between you & i.
The volunteers included the entire Clapton Orient side, who perhaps took inspiration from Hearts of Midlothian, whose squad had enlisted in a Scottish precursor, McCrae's Battalion, several months previously.
EDF had planned to sign a long-awaited funding agreement with its Chinese investment partners in March, thought to be key to settling procurement plans for the £24.5bn build, and the precursor to a final investment decision.
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He's outstanding, a precursor of Graham Greene's Pinkie, a wicked boy with a blonde (or grey) streak in his hair.
This, to some extent, is the direct precursor of that.
To the harassed pedestrian for whom he tinged bell has become a tense precursor to either an earful of abuse or near-death experience, the moron has become the norm.
Bartle and Trubshaw used this to link in to the University of Kent, and from there establish a connection with the US-led ARPAnet, an early precursor to today's global internet.
John Kasich Kasich has reportedly created New Day for America, a tax-exempt nonprofit – a precursor to the launch of the presidential exploratory committee that, one GOP source said, he will formally announce as soon as next week.
In 2009, when the Cork county goalkeeper Donal Og Cusack came out as gay, the novelist Colm Tóibín hailed him as "the first gay hurler since Cúchulainn", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Iron Age mythological warrior-hero whose feats with stick and ball make him the precursor of today's hurlers.
The teams now move on to Barbados for a three-match T20 series as a precursor for their World T20 campaigns that follow in Bangladesh.
