forerunner

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• With its repair ship, colliers, and hospital ships, it was a forerunner of the Task Force concept used four decades later in another war against Japan.
• It was the forerunner to the sos call which in turn was superseded, in the days of voice radio, by the now standard Mayday call. LET NOT THE DEEP
• For me I use nokia sports tracker and my N95 8gb with its GPS for location, speed etc, but a garmin forerunner for heart rate. Five Best Exercise Planning And Tracking Tools | Lifehacker Australia
• His enquiring mind made itself obvious very early on, when he put together the forerunner to AM stereo radio in a crystal set at home, when he was only 11 years old.
• Like its forerunner, the reverse tope is liable to be any depth or width; it depends on the whim of the spade wielders, or perhaps how deeply they had descended towards the bottom of a tequila bottle. Free riding the roads of Mexico
• It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue.
• During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
• The Army bought some for issue to the 1st Special Service Force, forerunners of today's Green Berets.
• Among the items recovered are gold coins, medical equipment, clothing and footwear, and a shawm, a medieval forerunner to the oboe and one of the oldest such musical instruments in the world.
• 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.