We found 16 examples of how to use preceding in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 16 of 16.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The essential points of my argument have been expressed in the preceding pages. | |
| 2. | The index rose 4% from the preceding month. | |
| 3. | The index advanced to 120.5, up 4% from the preceding month. | |
| 4. | The third quarter GNP growth was 1% over the preceding quarter. | |
| 5. | The company's fourth quarter results sharply improved from the preceding quarter. | |
| 6. | The sentence with the preceding number is false. | |
| 7. | The following sentence is true. The preceding sentence is false. | |
| 8. | See the preceding example. | |
| 9. | The preceding month was very rainy. | |
| 10. | Though we had grown apart in the months preceding his sudden and unexpected death, I continue to mourn his passing. | |
| 11. | If Esperanto was progressing so greatly during the preceding twelve years, the main reason lay in the fact that theoretical discussion concerning the language itself had already ceased. | |
| 12. | She had sat up until nearly twelve the preceding night composing a speech she meant to make to her pupils upon opening the school. She had revised and improved it painstakingly, and then she had learned it off by heart. It was a very good speech and had some very fine ideas in it, especially about mutual help and earnest striving after knowledge. The only trouble was that she could not now remember a word of it. | |
| 13. | Her gaiety of the preceding day had given place to a deep shade of melancholy. | |
| 14. | The fatal weapon was found in the chamber smeared with blood. It was the same poniard which Henry should have worn on the wedding-day, and the unhappy sister had probably contrived to secrete on the preceding evening, when it had been shown to her among other articles of preparation for the wedding. | |
| 15. | The three weeks preceding Tisha B'Av are a period of mourning in Judaism. | |
| 16. | This contract will nullify all preceding contracts. |