Sentence examples for preceding several from inspiring English sources

Over all, China's economy will continue to expand next year, but some economists say the rate of growth could fall as low as 5 or 6percentt, far slower than the double-digit pace of the preceding several years.

Six months after settling with the SEC, in April 2003, Siebel's CFO attended a private meeting with institutional investors and allegedly made positive comments about Siebel's business activity levels and transaction pipeline that materially contrasted with negative public statements Siebel made about its business in the preceding several weeks.

The first step was admitting to myself that the torture I had experienced over the preceding several months was a product of my mind and had no basis in reality.

Otis developed on September 28 , 2005 off the western coast of Mexico, from a tropical wave that emerged from the western coast of Africa and traversed the Atlantic Ocean during the preceding several weeks.

The punitive approach would have left out many longtime residents, who didn't have regular employment in the preceding several years, or were disabled or unable to work, or were dependent on the workers in their families, or had any kind of a history of document abuse (something which, by definition, affects the undocumented, and which the 1986 Reagan reform was careful to address in humane terms).

He described slaughtering by hand several noncommercially raised pigs over the preceding several weeks for a church-related luau.

The killings preceded several international assessments of the country's human rights record.

It also precedes several English hilt-and-point dances and possibly derives from ancient whiffling to clear the dance area of evil spirits.

The Washington vote came just a day after a court ruling in California that struck down that state's ban on same-sex marriage, and it precedes several other votes expected across the country that could keep the issue in the spotlight throughout this election year.

We precede several experimental data for realizing a numerical model based on TRNSYS software.

PS externalization precedes several other events (such as loss of membrane integrity…) normally associated with this mode of cell death (Martin et al. 1995).