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was precedence
noun
The state of preceding in importance or priority.
Exact(3)
"There was precedence from DNA studies of birds," she said.
There was precedence for direct rule to be imposed, Corbyn argued, and it should be done.
We wondered whether there was precedence in human cancer for kinase-dead AKT mutations.
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There is precedence in the English game.
On the retail side, there is precedence.
There is precedence for the government's interference.
There is precedence for this – the intelligence and security committee can take evidence in private.
North American soccer might have it wrong, and there is precedence for MLS to follow on opinion this too.
He is the Englishman Howard Webb, and there is precedence for Webb's showing leniency in extremis toward van Bommel's roughing up of talented Spanish players.
There is precedence for this.
There's precedence for environmental horse trading.
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