forerunners in English

noun
1
a person or thing that precedes the coming or development of someone or something else.
the icebox was a forerunner of today's refrigerator

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1. These faculae frequently are the forerunners of sunspot formation.

2. They had rudimentary spinal columns and became the forerunners of fish.

3. These Anabaptist Christians were the forerunners of today’s Mennonite

4. These were the forerunners of today’s pioneers (full-time evangelizers).

5. 11 They had rudimentary spinal columns and became the forerunners of fish.

6. Country music was undoubtedly one of the forerunners of rock and roll.

7. Between 1995-2000 ARGE was project coordinator for two ADAPT-projects and an EMPLOYMENT-project (forerunners of EQUAL).

8. The Clachans developed around the Presbyterian Kirks, or meetinghouses, and became the forerunners of the congregations

9. Abyssally generated T phases alone, ami (4) slope-generated T^ phases preceded by low-level forerunners

10. Despite a few dissenters, paleontologists generally agree that dinosaurs were forerunners of modern birds, rather than reptiles.

11. In other words, this animal, though clearly a tetrapod, was primarily an aquatic creature whose immediate forerunners were essentially fish that had never left the water.

12. These exercises, known as the 18 hands of Lo-Han, are popularly believed to be the forerunners of Shaolin temple boxing.

13. According to various sources, the forerunners of the modern necktie appeared in England and France in the latter part of the 16th century.

14. ‘Slices of meat the size of individual portions, they were in their way forerunners of hamburgers, served up to busy city dwellers in the London Chophouses that proliferated from the 1690s onwards.’

15. Bombardes (or bombard) (from Latin Bombus-a deep, loud noise) are members of the double reed family of instruments and are one of the forerunners of the modern Oboe.Known historically as Shawms (from the Latin Calamus-reed), the instrument has a conical bore and usually 7 finger holes.

16. Being a fortress world built by the Ancient Human Empire Adytum was an incomplete shield world which had been intended, originally, to act as a refugee center for Humanity during the Human-Flood War which had preceded, following the victory the structure lost attention and was only awakened again in the middle years of the war against the Forerunners to which it was refit as a battle station.