Sentence examples for preceding it was from inspiring English sources

But preceding it was a kind of entr'acte.

Until you realise that the programme immediately preceding it was the Champions league semi-final between Manchester United and Barcelona which attracted stunning figures of 10.6 million.

"Volcano", like the early South Park episodes preceding it, was viewed by slightly more than 1 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings.

Resource utilisation on the exacerbation date, and in the week and three month period preceding it, was evaluated for the cases.

Preceding it are a couple of stern and unusual injunctions.

The event and the deliberations preceding it are absent.

This oil painting, like the eight preceding it, is of a table with fruit on it.

(A queen, sadly, is not an option in this year's Best Director race, which, as at eighty-four of the eighty-eight ceremonies preceding it, is all male).

Yesterday's blanket coverage was not excessive; the 10 days of overload preceding it were the problem, creating a sense of dread.

Two years ago, I wrote a column for the Guardian in which I argued that what distinguishes our age from those preceding it is an epidemic of loneliness.

A five-mile race tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m. on the East Lake Drive; preceding it is a children's race, ranging from 50 yards to one-half mile.