The phrase "as a preceding" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to something that comes before another element, but it lacks clarity and proper context.
Example: "As a preceding factor in the analysis, we must consider the historical data."
Alternatives: "as a prior" or "as an earlier".
The stylebook wants no hyphen in this expression except as a preceding modifier.
Although security for the summit meeting, as well as a preceding Group of 8 meeting north of Toronto, was the most costly police effort in Canadian history — the final tally was about $1 billion — the result was widely criticized.
For example, it is often used as a preceding stage in object classification [1 3] and object-based image compression [4 6].
Results demonstrate that the use of compressed CO2 might be of technological importance as a preceding, preparation step, to improve enzyme activity, hence helping the development of new biotransformation processes.
Winter pea as a preceding crop for durum wheat increased wheat grain production by 8% (383 kg ha−1) compared to that with sunflower − the traditional preceding crop − with a mean reduction in fertilizer application of 40 49 kg N ha−1 during the six-year experiment.
Many attendees were members of the Armenian diaspora and had travelled to Turkey especially for the ceremony as well as a preceding program of concerts lectures and memorial services.
However, the presence of a pronoun provided as an initial prompt in the continuation favors interpretation of the pronoun as referencing a preceding subject.
This experimental observations, obtained at platinum in H2SO4, leads to a mechanism of anodic oxidation as follows: a preceding dehydrogenation is followed by chemical and/or electrochemical oxidation of the reaction products.
However, there is overlap before implementation takes place as it needs a preceding process, that is, strategy formulation.
As demonstrated in a preceding section, cells transfected with GFP-NACC1-WT contained 10 20 NACC1-NB of various sizes per nucleus.
She lacked clinical features typically associated with IgA-dominant PIGN such as hypocomplementemia and a preceding staphylococcal infection, and did not have diabetes mellitus.
