Our failure to offer this prospect to many citizens long precedes the World Wide Web.

Forms of tone mapping long precede digital photography.

Miles stared off into the middle distance for a moment, with an air of reminiscence of the sort which usually preceded long, boring adult stories.

Those failures long precede the death of Mr. Arafat.

It was even harder for those who long preceded my uncle Nathan to San Francisco.

Yet anyone who has lived in Israel also knows that complaining and self-searching are a venerable tradition among the Jews, long preceding their state.

"The issue between the two boards is real estate, and the dispute long preceded my appointment," he said.

As Freehling shows, this disunity long preceded 1861.

"Plastics" meaning certain synthetic organic resins have been used ever since they were invented, but the term "plastic arts" long preceded them.

Russian intolerance toward minorities has existed for centuries; it also long preceded the Communist revolution.