In the intervening time
Prior to and in the intervening time are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prior to" instead an adverb phrase "In the intervening time".
Prior to
Prior to preposition - Earlier than.
In the intervening time and prior to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "In the intervening time" instead an adverb phrase "Prior to".
Both terms in one sentence
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The first half of season 3 of Alias centers around the show's main character, Sydney Bristow, having lost two years' worth of memory (the season 2 cliffhanger had her wake up in Hong Kong two years after the events shown prior to that, with no memory to what had happened in the intervening time).
Source: Memory Gambit
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