Sentence examples for predecessor to from inspiring English sources

Data analytics is the predecessor to Big Data.

He got his predecessor to write it.

ARPANET was more than a predecessor to the Internet.

It would have been unthinkable for Mr Sarkozy's predecessor to have vacationed in America.

Cheek-Neal was acquired in 1928 by the Postum Company, a predecessor to General Foods.

But it was hardly the obvious predecessor to a fully formed digital cosmos.

New Yorkers still regularly elect Republican mayors — the incumbent and his predecessor, to take two examples.

The Lasker Award is widely considered the predecessor to a Nobel Prize.

Under the predecessor to Mr. Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy, the government proposed a levy on Internet advertising.

(Germanium, a relatively rare metal, was the predecessor to silicon in transistors).

He started a wireless company that was a predecessor to Verizon Wireless.