“The information society will be established as an antecedent to the knowledge-based society.”

“The interwar crisis can properly be regarded as the main antecedent of the war.”

“The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.”

“Nothing was known locally either of his antecedents or of the reasons which had prompted him to come to this Lancashire hamlet.”

“The patient's tastes run to swingbeat, hip hop and dancehall but he has only a bare knowledge of their antecedents.”

“Both have continued in their claims to have Welsh antecedents despite further new documentary evidence to the contrary.”