Sentence examples similar to preceding past from inspiring English sources

Similar delegations have preceded past visits by top Chinese leaders to Washington and have focused on bundling planned purchases of Boeing jets, American grain and other exports into multibillion-dollar contracts that can be signed at elaborate ceremonies.

To analyze whether proximity to a DL patient was accompanied by an increased frequency of DL diagnosis among dwellers of the region, we used a geographic information system (ArcInfo version 8.3 software) to measure distances between the residence of each new patient during 1998 2002 (recent cases) and residences of all patients in the preceding 12 months (past cases).

Rignot said that this latest study is preceded by past research on the region.

By contrast, one's "because motives" consist in the environmental, historical factors that influenced the (now past) decision to embark upon the project and that can only be discovered by investigating in the "pluperfect tense," that is, exploring those past factors that preceded that past decision.

Episodes of illness in the preceding past two weeks and the prevalence of long-term illness/disorders in the past six months were recorded.

But it needs to be placed in the perspective of stock-market history on Black Monday, October 19 , 1987 the Dow fell twenty-two per cent and also of the record-breaking run-up that preceded the past few days of declines.

Stone has been preceded in the past few years by Andrew Roberts, Max Hastings and Anthony Beevor, thousands of pages covering the six-year story.

And in fact, Mr. Kelly's reaction has been preceded, over the past 100 years or so, by similar reactions to the introduction of motion pictures, radio and television.

Her egg slicer scaled for a baby is preceded by several past works involving cribs -- one of collapsing rubber, another of ultra fragile hand-blown laboratory glass and, most devious of all, one that has sharp wires stretched across it (also like an egg slicer) in place of springs.

However, we cannot exclude the possibility of this recent expansion being preceded by cryptic past episodes of loss of genetic diversity.

In 30% of the cases, the encephalitis is primary, but in 70% it is preceded by a past history of benign herpes.