The phrase "preceding day" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a way to describe the day before a certain event. For example, "I had forgotten to bring my umbrella the preceding day."
Peaks in the runoff time series were defined as days for which the preceding day and the following day both had smaller runoff values than the present day.
Each preceding day had ended early thanks to rain or cloud.
Independence Day is a national holiday; the preceding day, Remembrance Day, commemorates Israel's war dead.
On the preceding day devotees keep a vigil and fast until midnight, the traditional hour of his birth.
Through the preceding day of voting, voters had taken to social media to report apparent violations, at times marvelling at their creativity.
But that wasn't on the agenda: at their press conference the preceding day, the gig was discussed in terms of logistics rather than as a new creative endeavour.
Over the preceding day, hundreds of sober-suited Japanese businessmen arrived in New Delhi, driving home the underlying message of Mr. Abe's visit: Japan is pushing for a much stronger partnership with India.
If Waddell's flies had spent the preceding day in a normal vial with the usual moist fly food (they are fond of molasses), most of them sniffed the air and walked into the dry tube.
In an instantly famous study, published in Science in 2004, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman asked nine hundred working women to assess their experiences during the preceding day.
There is always a risk of after the Lord Mayor's show when the leader's speech is made on the preceding day, and holding your most reluctant Corbynistas till after many people have already gone home felt like canny planning.
