'this process precedes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a process that takes place before another one. For example: "This process precedes the next one, so make sure you complete it first."
Although pigment analyses were not performed, greening of the cells was clearly visible within 12 hours of N-addition as pigment production was re-established in chlorotic cells; this process preceded the increase in polyadenylated transcript abundance for photosystem and ATPase genes.
Some opponents of the resolution criticized the process preceding the vote as rushed and ineffectual.
From a CQI philosophical perspective, quality is the product of a chain in which each person is a customer (client) of the people in the process preceding theirs (McLaughlin and Kaluzny 1994; Agyepong et al. 2001, 2004).
This sequence, where the minor process precedes the main process of the clause, might be taken as another case of "the modifier precedes the modified", whereby a circumstantial element has the function of modifying the general character of the process.
This process obviously precedes the development of turbidity caused by bacterial growth, on which present-day conventional methods such as the VITEK and Phoenix® systems are based.
Although it is generally accepted that a degenerative process precedes gross tendon injury, the aetiology of this process remains elusive and the definition of degeneration is poorly defined.
Moreover, risk factor detection, earlier in the disease process, precedes in many patients the presence of the image findings.
In a capsaicin cough challenge test, the urge-to-cough occurred at a lower capsaicin concentration than that eliciting a motor cough, suggesting that the cough cognitive sensory process precedes the cough motor event [ 8].
Superstitious conditioning, a form of associative learning, is also more common amongst frequent ketamine users and this process may precede outright delusional thinking (67).
However, it is rather obvious that this process was preceded by the emergence of a first set of protein domain structures/folds with a limited repertoire of biochemical functions.
