Sentence examples for precursor of something from inspiring English sources

Big-pharma firms are taking the point: six of them have already signed up to Pharsight's services.What Pharsight is doing could turn out to be the precursor of something even more radical than virtual trials: using pharmacogenomics to pick suitable participants for a trial in advance, thus extending its prospective use for picking those suitable for treatment.

The informal censorship by NASA of Buzz Aldrin's perfectly lovely, perfectly legitimate, celebration of Communion on the Moon was an ominous precursor of something now slouching to be born.

Both of these examples are a precursor to something much bigger: the rise of women in the tech industry as a whole.

In other cases, it is the precursor to something greater, just the tip of the iceberg.

Using Motorola chips and plenty of crazy ports, the iTV was the precursor to something like WebTV and used a Macintosh Quadra 605/LC475 processor and a crazy OS.

"It's a precursor to something that's coming that's really scary," he said.

In hindsight, Mr. Serrano said, he understands that hanging out was only a precursor to something more.

Against that backdrop, the flag kerfuffle begins to look like a precursor to something far more significant.

The flag kerfuffle begins to look like a precursor to something far more significant.

"We hope that will be a precursor to something bigger in future," she said.

If Cummings is right, this technology might just be the precursor for something even more radical.