A period of poor nutrition nearly always precedes an attack.

There have been six such periods, preceding the economic collapses of 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929.

The proposals will be in effect for the 16-week regulated period preceding the poll.

Only once did I, in my trances, get a hint of the period preceding the time spent on the island.

This time a long period on the firing line preceded Hamilton's entrance into the harbor.

He was at Warsaw during the troubled period immediately preceding the second partition.

His family's presence in the country traced back to the period preceding the American Revolution.

This refers to a period preceding, by three or four years, the emigration to Medina.

A somewhat similar pattern may be detected in the periods preceding the rise of most movements.

In the period just preceding the Civil War, other interests became subordinate to those of national concern.