To serve as the basis for predicate status, a sentence must have been rendered before the commission of the instant underlying felony (Penal Law § 70.06 [1] [b] [ii]). The People do not dispute that the predicate sentence at bar was rendered almost a year after the commission of the instant underlying felony. That this objection was not raised at sentence, is not a bar to defendant's present consideration (see, e.g., People v Bell,
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