The bid presentations ended at 9:00 UTC and a presentation of the Evaluation Commission's final report preceded the election.

The report of the slamming door preceded a heavy silence broken only by the sound of their breathing.

Verbal reports always precede written reports in any case (on the grapevine), thus making written reports redundant along with the managers and secretaries who waste precious time writing them.

The report preceded by one day the release of a monthly survey by the National Association of Purchasing Managers.

However, reports of Serbian children being hosted in Greece precede this initiative by several years.

This classified report also precedes the publication of his "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which appeared in 1948.

(Of course, in these cases of acknowledged "newsworthiness," highly touted preliminary reports long precede any technical publication, usually providing, as the cliché goes, much heat with little light.)

The reports preceded you.

All three of these muralists traveled to the United States, where reports of Mexico's artistic renaissance had preceded them, and all three painted murals there, provoking criticism as well as admiration.

This report is preceding the European Commission's progress report, and therefore provides a unique opportunity to influence and enrich the stance of the European Commission.