Precursor used in a sentence

Precursor in a sentence as a noun

This is a precursor to the next revolution in chips, 3D.

These two 28C3 talks[0,1] discuss the precursor to such an apocalypse.

From the paper:"This large decrease of ACR was preceded by 2 precursor temporary decreasesstarting on July 28th and August 14th.

What's missing is any explanation of why the author considers the precursor question of "Why would Apple even think of buying Nintendo?

You can see how it works with ***** - anything that can be classified as related to ***** or precursor to ***** or can be used in relation to anything to do with ***** is outlawed.

>It feels very prototype-ish and I can't help but feel that it's the precursor to something better Google might even be working on now as we try these.^^ This is totally the point of this run of Google Glass.

It's almost as if naive optimism is a semi-necessary precursor to remarkable achievement.

I'm particular about keyboards and I've got to say that while I was initially appalled by the new Apple keyboard, and was no fan of the precursor, the newest kind is actually one of the best keyboards I've ever used.

The goal of the meeting was very different: the scientists were supposed to evaluate whether the seismic sequence could be considered a precursor event, to assess what damages had already happened at that point, to discuss how to mitigate risks.

I saw no problems with the paper: it applied an epidemiologically-inspired statistical technique to Facebook using a defunct precursor as exemplar.