Sentence examples for long pre-dating from inspiring English sources

Hallowe'en is a much bigger event in the US than in Britain, and for the past 20 years – long pre-dating Harry Potter – Universal has offered "Halloween Horror Nights", where ghosts and monsters lie in wait to leap out of the gloom and scare guests out of their wits.

Our motivation is the common interest of Sark and Brecqhou, as well as a genuine love for the Bailiwick, where our family has spent a considerable amount of time for decades past, long pre-dating our purchase of Brecqhou".

Yet the idea long pre-dates Sacchi.

For cases where a hospital or hospice preference was specified, records indicated that these preferences had emerged in response to recent deterioration whereas preferences for home were sometimes more long-standing (pre-dating recent deterioration).

You'd think that being in a pre-dating situation (online dating, singles events, first dates) would change things.

Indigenous peoples have long-standing connections to their ancestral lands, dating back many generations and pre-dating colonization.

Modern frog-biting midges (Corethrellidae), sister to the mosquitoes + phantom midges (Chaoboridae 39, are known to feed only on anuran hosts (Fig. 3), and this association dates to the Lower Cretaceous57, pre-dating Burmaculex by 75 million years.

Further, feeding damage to fossil leaves ascribed to hispine beetles (subfamily Cassidinae) has been dated to the earliest Cenozoic (65 Mya) and Eocene (52 Mya) [9], pre-dating Eocene body fossils of this group by some 20 My [9].

Far pre-dating Silicon Valley, it was the University of Manchester which invented the first stored-programme computer.

Heading back into the capital, we visit locations pre-dating Gaborone's recent steel and glass expansion.

The collapse in the rial, a problem linked but pre-dating sanctions, has seen the cost of medicines rise exponentially.