It would seem that the effective date preceded the legislation by nine months.

On that day-you will not be here to see it, I am afraid, for your scheduled date of departure precedes it by a short time-our whole people goes to the seashores.

(For example, the date an injury claim was filed should precede the date of adjudication.)

The last time they lost back-to-back game was March 7, 1993, a date preceding the birth of six of the players on the team.

The date of the Book of Isaiah cannot precede the date of the man Isaiah, which was the 8th century BC.

This date only slightly precedes the first appearance of cricetodontines.

W lists the "date of the earliest recorded use in English ...of the sense which the date precedes."

His date of designation as an aviator also precedes all other aviators in the U.S. Air Force and Army.

This worked out in GE's favor after the patent was awarded to Bayer because Schnell's date of invention preceded Fox's by only one week.

As these dates preceded the record's release, "El Dorado" was the only new song played in 2010.