In fact, they won the three games directly preceding their franchise-worst losing streak.

Almost the same thing, but the shift in this thing is two bits more and directly precedes the supervisor call.

At any time, you can only see the cel directly preceding the one you're working on.

The earthquake directly preceded a rapid increase in the numbers of sexual violence in Haiti.

The environment in which one sleeps, and the environment that directly precedes sleep, is also very important.

In brief, the focus directly precedes the verb phrase.

For all its modern technology it can go no faster than the skip-stop local directly preceding it.

She performed on the weekend of 6 & 7 October, directly preceding the song's release.

There are several different witness reports as to the events directly preceding the blast, all of which are more or less equally plausible.

This "visual storytelling" directly preceded the development of the first moving pictures.