The phrase "a range of preceding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a variety of items, events, or concepts that have come before a particular point in time or context.
Example: "The study analyzed a range of preceding research findings to draw its conclusions."
Alternatives: "a variety of prior" or "a selection of earlier".
We started with an extensive literature review, which made it possible to do a comparative and a qualitative analysis of the broad range of preceding studies.
27 Examining the entire range of preceding disease diagnoses in PD patients and controls may identify certain previously unsuspected risk factors for PD and provide insight as to common mechanisms behind diseases previously considered unrelated.
Figure 2 shows that between 1992 and 2011/12 there was a general increase in the proportion of households fitted with a range of security devices which preceded the burglary falls (see earlier Fig. 1).
We demonstrate that institutional change can be preceded by a range of innovation system-building activities that are not directly intended to bring about institutional change but are required in order for institutional change to take place.
However, in the majority of cases, the chemical induction of cancer in a tissue was preceded by a range of biochemical/morphologic changes, most of which were moderately specific for a carcinogenic outcome, and some of which were highly specific for it (e.g., increases in TSH in the thyroid gland and increases in relative liver weight in the mouse).
For each pollutant concentration, we considered a range of short-term and subchronic exposure windows preceding each subject's examination, including: 4 hr, 24 hr (lag 0), previous day (lag 1), and 3, 7, 14, and 28-day moving averages.
A range of radiotracers can detect impairment of cellular viability preceding cell death.
The divergence of bilaterian animal phyla is estimated at ~400-700 Mya, a range of dates that is consistent with cladogenesis immediately preceding the Cambrian explosion.
All women who had given birth in the five years preceding the survey were asked a range of questions about maternal care.
Synapse loss leads to a loss of dendritic mass [ 24] and, crucially, may precede, and indeed drive, neuron loss in a range of conditions [ 25].
