The phrase "the preceding date" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the date that comes before the current date or the one that was mentioned previously. Here is an example of how to use it in a sentence: "The report must be completed and submitted by the preceding date, which was last week."
It is quite likely that the sex ratio will have an impact, not only upon mate selection but also the preceding dating behaviors.
At the time I just thought that the word 'The' preceding a date was a strong use of language.
In the year preceding the date of response to the questionnaire, most respondents travelled and returned home with their horse within a single day (58.6%, 2063/3522).
Conclusions The steeply increased frequency of hospital contacts for a head injury during the months preceding the date at which Parkinson's disease was first recorded is a consequence of the evolving movement disorder rather than its cause.
Subjects were required to have at least one year history of care with the participating practice, and to have at least 1 office visit during the year preceding the date of data collection.
Presumably, the council acted on a straightforward interpretation of the Haitian constitution, which requires presidential aspirants to have lived in the country for the five years preceding the date of the election, November 28th.
If the last follow-up was conducted in prison, the censor date was the preceding QCS readmission.
The duration of the IPI is defined by measuring the amount of time between the preceding miscarriage and the estimated date of conception of the focal pregnancy.
At least one of these diagnoses had to be recorded in a 1-year period (including the quarter of the index date and the preceding three quarters).
New use of an antihypertensive agent was defined as prescription of the study drug, with no use of this drug in the 90 days preceding the date this prescription was filled (taken as the index date).
