Sentence examples for existing prior to from inspiring English sources

No correlation seems to exist between an older drainage existing prior to circa 3.7 Ma and the present Yellow River network in the Jinshaan Canyon, even though sedimentary and tectonic evidence suggests that the drainage in the middle reach of the Yellow River formed in the late Miocene-early Pliocene.

3) We have noted in our discussion of nitrogenase evolution that ambiguity still exists as we cannot exclude the possibility of an ancient shared nitrogenase existing prior to the present nitrogenase complexes in Melainabacteria and Cyanobacteria.

It is impossible to recreate the landscape existing prior to the ditching of the 1930's.

Note may contain the few numbers existing prior to the 1940s.

The Commonwealth believes, apparently, that the "constitutional balance" existing prior to the Fourteenth Amendment did not permit Congress to override the States' immunity from suit.

Texas claims any such islands existing prior to 1848 by prescription and acquiescence, but, plainly, a State may not acquire property from the United States in this manner.

The brain doesn't require knowledge of all existing priors to solve the problem.

The developed motion modeling and free-form deformation (MM-FD) method estimates high quality on-board 4D-CBCT images through applying deformation field maps to existing prior planning 4D-CT images.

The current study has examined traits that are pre-existing prior to herbivory and are essentially constitutive (e.g. [7]).

De novo variation: genetic variation generated by mutation (or other processes such as recombination) after the onset of an environmental change, as opposed to standing or pre-existing prior to this change.

Single room isolation and standard contact precautions (with donning gowns and gloves in an anteroom prior to entry) were pre-existing prior to introduction of MBL organisms into the BU.