Sentence examples for have preceded by from inspiring English sources

In studies of complex molecular systems like zeolites or other inorganic solids, experimental studies have preceded by far the theoretical ones.

He is said to have preceded by about 250 years Mahavira, the most recent Tirthankara, who, according to tradition, died in 527 bce.

His sister, Joan, had preceded him by 14 months.

My grandmother's and Paul's quota had preceded ours by some months.

Then came high school in Washington Heights (Henry Kissinger and Alan Greenspan had preceded him by a year or two), New York University and a Columbia M.B.A.

Nina had preceded them by starting an economics degree at Sussex University, then regarded as a hotbed of radicalism.

Another, genuinely groundbreaking exhibition, "The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s," had preceded it by three years.

Scholars thus began to join in numbers the expatriates who had preceded them by decades and even centuries: explorers, traders, missionaries, whalers, administrators, soldiers and sailors, and beachcombers.

Yet King James's book had preceded them all by more than a decade.

Every coffee, every cake, every toastie, every conversation I've had with Mari has been preceded by a good swim.

"In my experience the times I've slimmed down the most have been preceded by stress, a break up, lack of self-care, something traumatic.