Older versions of the song long predate the movie.
However, the newspaper itself long predated the course.
In any event, at Columbia, both courses long predated the cold war.
The idea of the ignorant or badly behaving American traveler long predates this book.
Delancy Road long predates being a part of the state highway system, having existed since at least 1898.
The company long predated the building, and even its name.
He had a thing for jock women that long predated his academic interest in sociobiology.
Their links, after all, long predate the Communist era.
These stories and others are known to be apocryphal because the word "kipper" long predates this.
Churches often sit on sites of great antiquity, long predating Christianity.