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Partly this showed the age of MathML, since all of the initial design predated the final version of the XML standard.

China predated him; it strides into the historical consciousness as an established state requiring only restoration, not creation.

It was impossible to say whether their current heart damage predated their marathon training.

Then again, Putnam's research predated the smartphone revolution and he pretty much ignored the Internet.

Parpola thinks miniature models of wheeled wagons, which are commonly found in the Eurasian steppes, likely predated human-scale wagons.

However, as Mr Bruner and Mr Carr demonstrate in their well-timed book, history shows that contagion has predated computers.

Part of the explanation lies in the timing of the latter studies, which predated the present economic crisis.

Google replaced the images with photographs that predated the construction of the base.

This cover, from 1962, predated the now traditional bubble covers, but remains a classic example of British self-deprecation.

It predated the 1960s and is still here.

But the US economy's structural problems predated the financial crisis.

This isn't a new idea: the US X-15 plane piggybacked on a B-52 bomber and its first flight predated Apollo 11 by a decade.

This concern long predated the debate about vaccines and autism.

There is the Xia which predated them but by all historical records, the earliest that one started was 2000 BC.

Persistence and extinction of diffusion population being exploited or predated