The 'preceding' week he had been on vacation.
the 'preceding' chapter
the 'preceding' year
(..) Oh speak to me no more, these words like daggers enter in mine ears - No more, sweet Hamlet - A murderer and a villain A slave that is not the twentieth part the worth of your preceding lord A king of vices, a cutpurse of the empire and the rule... - No more - A king of shreds and patches (..)2015 Hamlet