Sentence examples for it preceding from inspiring English sources
But the steady rise in undergraduate enrollments most of it preceding the intense pro-STEM propaganda we're seeing now is slightly encouraging.
But both anecdotal evidence and Department of Health data suggests that most Americans will spend Thanksgiving or at least the portion of it preceding and following the ritual power-eating of yams and fibrous turkey meat much the way we spend the rest of our days.
As I've noted often in my summer-long road trip that began on the Oregon border, we love the water a little too much in California, and although the 40-year-old Coastal Act has stymied dozens of beachfront projects, we've foolishly allowed too much development — much of it preceding the Coastal Act — too close to the sea.
It preceded the Bush administration.
It preceded Louis Pasteur's germ theory.
In fact, it's so American it precedes America.
The same with his drinking: it preceded the fame.
It precedes any television work I've done.
And it preceded the Dream Syndicate by just six months.
