No events were held in the five months immediately preceding the race.

Body weight was stable during the three months preceding the study.

He cast no votes during March 1919, the month preceding his death.

The organization was founded in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In the months preceding the festival more tickets are sold at full price.

In the six months preceding the survey, 40 per cent of them had spent £18 or less on textbooks.

Unemployed benefit is paid to workers who have contributed at least during 12 months preceding their loss of a job.

To facilitate the work, the circuit was closed and no events were held in the five months immediately preceding the race.

In the six months preceding that article, such bombings have killed or injured 4,000 Iraqis.

He was your friend until the last few months preceding the insurrection in Romania.