ex- vs preceding

ex-

prefix
  • former, but still living (almost always used with a hyphen) 

  • out of 

  • outside 

  • Lacking. 

preceding

adj
  • Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence. 

How often have the words ex- and preceding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )