Sentence examples for preceding few from inspiring English sources
The last season was, if anything, more plausibly preposterous than the preceding few.
The economic slowdown of the preceding few years showed little sign of passing.
In the preceding few months, she had come to the clinic twice with assorted aches and inexplicable pains.
For each day, the researchers fed into their network the market's behavior over the preceding few months.
"It's very hard to write regulations that will keep people from acting foolishly, particularly when acting foolishly has proven very profitable over the preceding few years," he said.
The bad news is that the preceding few years were so bad that the financial predicament of many is still dismal.
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Despite the significance of the 9/11 attacks and the terrorist assaults preceding them, few people can answer the questions: What is the relationship between the mastermind of the first attack on the World Trade Center and the mastermind of 9/11?
Hoffman reminded me that, during the entire twentieth century, only a dozen terrorist incidents left more than a hundred people dead, and that during the thirty years preceding September 11th fewer than a thousand Americans had been killed worldwide by terrorists.
But each of his reforms has been less ambitious than the one that preceded it.A few streets away from his office in central Rome, Linda Lanzillotta, the regional affairs minister, also has a bill making its way through parliament.
England were 3-0 up when Ashton struck for his first try at HQ. Lewis Moody's line-out take and a thrust by Shontayne Hape preceded a few pop passes and Mike Tindall, Mark Cueto and Tom Croft – with a deft left-handed pass – put Ashton over to the right of the posts.
