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

And it has been seven other times in the nine years preceding this one.

The books also must have been published within the year preceding the awards.

The state Democratic party had been undergoing a major division during the two years preceding the campaign.

In five years preceding the 1987 increase, 1981-85, revenue averaged $18.4 billion a year.

In the year preceding the downturn, economic growth averaged but 1 percent.

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

Among its first members were 25 corporations and individuals that gave the Republicans $250,000 each over the two years preceding the 1996 elections.

The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute.

During the three years preceding this move, the size of the law library tripled.