How to Use "forerunner" with Example Sentences

1. Many consider it the forerunner of modern militant islamism .

2. This view could be considered a forerunner of nutritional science in china .

3. Bulletin board systems were one forerunner to today 's social networks .

4. Tcs 's project in coimbatore a sprawling city 300km south-west of bangalore could become the forerunner of a service the consultancy would offer across india .

5. The engine would have used loops of jacquard 's punched cards to control a mechanical calculator - the forerunner of today 's methods of computer programming .