Sentence examples for been in the preceding from inspiring English sources
But there was not as much less as there had been in the preceding performance of "Apollo".
Job growth between 2000 and 2007 was only half what it had been in the preceding three decades.
The hero carries on his active public life, while the heroine, no matter how plucky she's been in the preceding 40 chapters, is happy to pick up her needlepoint and disappear into the land of happy ever after.
In summer, take-all was more severe than it had been in the preceding year but there were only small, and not significant, differences between plants sampled from plots testing wheat and from those testing set-aside/conservation covers (Table 16).
There was much more take-all in wheat after wheat (i.e. fourth wheats) but less than there had been in the preceding (third) wheats; it was moderately severe in Experiment 1, and only slight in Experiment 2. Grain yields in Experiment 1 were relatively small but wheat after oats yielded significantly more than wheat after the other break crops (7.84 and 6.64 t ha−1, respectively).
Economic growth has been markedly slower in the neoliberal era (since 1980 in Britain and the US) than it was in the preceding decades; but not for the very rich.
The single page that explains the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration is in the preceding chapter, which is devoted to cellular respiration.
For all 25 UNICEF supported townships combined, the malaria morbidity rate (MBR) was higher in 2008 than it was in the preceding four years.
This situation did not change in 1996-97 from what it was in the preceding biennium where my staff had noted it without making specific recommendations.
