preceding , prec. (abbreviation)

However, here the form given in the preceding equation is used.

This halt followed one of six days the preceding May.

On this basis, the latest reading is 449,000, the same as in the preceding period.

There are gathered all the documents created during the preceding analysis.

Comparative data for the preceding period should also be tagged.

Basically, though, the essential features of the political system were those established in the preceding century.

The chariots were not drawn for some years during the preceding period.

As the preceding analysis should make clear, there is no way to guarantee success in the battle of the forms.

Preceding aggressions, especially that of 1805, were not to be forgotten.

The copper trade continued, however profits were down compared with the preceding period.

Despite this, there was no return to the mass mutinies of the preceding century.

The agency seized only 15,863 pounds of cocaine in the entire preceding year.

Scanning back over the preceding century, there had been a lot of travel between the worlds up until about fifty years ago.

The preceding century had already witnessed many campaigns for new projections with little visible result.

The preceding equation finally shows the determination of income in a closed system without public sector.

"We are not moving off of a preceding period of euphoria."

Having retrieved the raw data, it needs to be transformed into the required information, perhaps by some preceding analysis work.

The preceding analysis illustrates the extent to which such a proposition is misguided.

That would be more than double the $554,926 in contributions for the preceding period.

The first part Chronicles I has been released the preceding year.

Malawi did not support any of the preceding recommendations.

Its profit in recent years is of a magnitude far different from that of the preceding century or so.

The preceding equation allows us to derive the wage share in the national income.

In 2000, 2094 crimes were reported, up slightly from 2008 crimes the preceding year.

In the preceding century, Spain experienced three major civil wars, 26 revolutions and 109 changes of government.