The phrase "as its precursor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is a predecessor or earlier version of something else.
Example: "The new software version builds upon the features of its predecessor, enhancing user experience as its precursor did."
Alternatives: "like its forerunner" or "similar to its predecessor".
But to prevent the African Union from suffering the same fate as its precursor, and to help it bridge promise and performance, the new institution would have to devise some form of enforcement mechanism to give its decisions binding force.
In previous work it was shown that the gaseous plant hormone ethylene, administered as its precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC), can reduce cell elongation in a concentration-dependent manner [ 3].
More specifically, the first ME maximum in foF2 values occurs one-two days before the storm beginning and can be used as its precursor.
The field campaign measured total and water soluble organic carbon (OC) in aerosol, as well as its precursor gases in the Taipei metropolis and a nearby rural forest during the summer of 2011.
Spectrophotometric and viscometric DNA binding studies of 1 and naphthalene diimide having two acetylene moieties 2 as its precursor were carried out to prove their threading intercalation binding modes.
Now, Mr. De Grauwe predicts, it will be bond investors zeroing in on Europe's weakest economies that, via a punishing cycle of soaring bond yields, could lead the euro zone to implode — just as its precursor did — as one country after the next defaults on rising debt.
This band has played in New York just once before, in January, and doesn't yet have as solid a footing as its precursors.
The English genre known as dubstep has flourished just as its precursors — garage and drum and bass — did: by letting sounds unfold over the generous course of a d.j.'s evening.
Mega Man X uses the same basic principles as its precursors but with many added options.
Greenstone was appointed by successive governors to serve on the board of the agency, as well as its precursors.
Monomethylhydrazine, as well as its precursors methylformylhydrazine and gyromitrin and raw Gyromitra esculenta, have been shown to be carcinogenic in experimental animals.
