Plymouth Colony (and its less successful predecessor in Jamestown) reunited the continents.

Today's sharks are streamlined versions of successful prehistoric predecessors.

Like many of them, he draws his inspiration, his motivation and even some of his techniques from some successful predecessor.

It followed its equally successful predecessor, The Rock Machine Turns You On.

On the dance chart, "Get on the Dance Floor" was more successful than it predecessor, hitting number one for two weeks in January 1989.

Rather than innovations to the game concept, new games generally focus on refining aspects of successful predecessors.

Everyone in this town knows that it is rare for a sequel to live up to a successful predecessor.

Iran Watch, launched in September 2004, follows the format of its successful predecessor, listing suspect Iranian organizations and sites and their foreign suppliers.

This is a strange thing to do for an exclusive product with a successful predecessor, especially when Microsoft was willing to do so much promotion of its own.

Today the NCO Net is a composite of all its very successful predecessors.