In the case of a likelihood which belongs to the exponential family there exists a conjugate prior, which is often also in the exponential family.

Ectonville may have been incorporated in 1980 but existed many years prior, and received mail for the surrounding community for a period of time.

That source was then compiled with the DASDL compiler, which created the dictionary (description file) if none existed prior.

It is a partly rollback to the system that existed prior the implementation of the one career path system 1983.

While the game was known to exist several months prior, it had remained behind closed doors until that conference.

The largely differentiated agricultural landscape of the New England of 1850 was distinct from the subsistence-dominated landscape that existed 40-60 years prior.

I was startled because I didn't even know this other level existed prior.

If the likelihood function belongs to the exponential family, then a conjugate prior exists, often also in the exponential family; see Exponential family: Conjugate distributions.

Lincoln informs the others that they have found the next time distortion event, threatening to flood drivers in an underground tunnel that did not exist four years prior.

Due to the fact that the Great Western Bank ceased to exist two seasons prior, the arena name was replaced by the team name on center ice, in anticipation of the move.