He cast no votes during March 1919, the month preceding his death.

She had not appeared in public for around three years preceding her death.

I was brought into intimate contact with him only during the two and a half years immediately preceding his death.

In the days preceding his death he had been receiving treatment for cancer.

Knowledge of the events preceding his death is confused because there are two different accounts.

He had been in poor health in the years preceding his death.

Numerous stories are associated with the time preceding her death.

He lived with her in the years just preceding his death.

This then was the paper she had bought on the Sunday preceding her death.

He had been hospitalized in the days preceding his death.