Sentence examples for preceding periods from inspiring English sources

In any case, like Euclid's Elements, The Nine Chapters gathered and organized many mathematical achievements (including arithmetic, geometric, and algebraic algorithms) from preceding periods.

Analogously to the two preceding periods, the next two electrons are added to the next available orbital, namely, the 6s orbital, producing the next two elements, cesium and barium.

Although the 19th-century theories that form the starting point of the modern study of religion were often based directly on metaphysical schemes in competition with Christian and other theologies, there was an atmosphere notably different from that of preceding periods, and the stage was set for a more complex understanding of the history and nature of religion.

The peaty palaeosols represent preceding periods of dunefield stabilization.

The EWS was calculated a posteriori on three preceding periods from the acute deterioration (−12, −24, and −72 h).

The optimum length of these preceding periods are derived for the two models are different, but a period of 60 days is a compromise acceptable for both latitudes.

"We are not moving off of a preceding period of euphoria".

It dealt with Soviet life in a more realistic way than had the officially approved literature of the preceding period.

Such a movement, with its unpatronising portrayal of working-class life, was clearly a reaction to the stifling conformity of the preceding period.

Tata's third quarter European steel production was little changed from the preceding period, at 3.56m tonnes, and was down 5% on a year earlier.

The targets have usually been social and political fads and abuses, together with the heroes and the clichés of the just preceding period of filmmaking.