Before his royal election, he was by inheritance Duke of Swabia ( 1147 – 1152, as Frederick III ).

Before land reclamation and port construction started, boats could be tied up to the churchyard wall on the seaward side.

Before 1996, the seaward front of the islands lost about 20 – 30 feet of land each year, mostly replaced at the rear.

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

Before 2007, the. ogg filename extension was used for all files whose content used the Ogg container format.

Before doing this, routine x-rays are taken of the entire spine, mainly to detect signs of metastatic disease of the vertebrae, that would imply direct extension into the epidural space and compression of the spinal cord.

Before he had the soprano vibraphone, he used song bells as an extended range of the standard vibraphone ; the song bells were similar in timbre, but soprano vibraphone was naturally the more ideal extension of the standard vibraphone.

Before the trade deadline, the Ducks traded Giguere to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Jason Blake and Vesa Toskala after signing Hiller to a contract extension.

Before the extension was built, the façade was hidden behind a small terrace of shops.

Before Juárez fled, Congress granted him an emergency extension of his presidency, which would go into effect in 1865, when his term expired, and last until 1867, when the last of Maximilian's forces were defeated.

Before the season, Salmon, who was about to finish a four-year contract signed before the season, briefly considered signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but instead signed a four-year, $ 40 million extension with the Angels.

Before the season ended, McLean signed a five-year contract extension that included the 1994 – 95 season, worth an approximate $ 2. 4 million per season, on April 5, 1995.

Before leaving office, he completed the negotiations for the renewal of the Triple Alliance, and for its extension to cover Anglo-Italian co-operation in the Mediterranean.

Before 1900, East Matagorda Bay was a free flowing extension, which formed the eastern segment of Matagorda Bay.

Before this bypass was constructed, the sweeping curve of the freeway at the Hallam end that became the South Gippsland Freeway had its capacity reduced from three lanes to two, resulting in a notorious bottle-neck at peak hours, especially for out-bound traffic exiting at the Princes Highway interchange outside Dandenong ; the extension finally bypassed the entire problem.

Before construction of the dam could start the Ohau River was diverted by cutting a channel through a low, rocky extension of the Benmore Range and building three diversion gates there which consumed 100, 000 cubic metres of concrete.

Before the start of the 2007 season, Gramática signed a two-year extension with the Cowboys.

Before that it was the location of Fort Gansevoort, and the upper extension of Greenwich Village, which had been a vacation spot until overtaken by the northward movement of New York City.

Before the extension, there were 3 returning tracks in the west of Kintetsu Namba Station ( present: Osaka Namba Station ).

Before the extension of the Senseki Line from Sendai Station, passengers from the subway would have to disembark and walk a good distance to the Senseki Line platform in Sendai Station.

Before the season, Turnbow signed a three-year contract extension worth a guaranteed $ 6. 5 million.

Before the legislation of the Electrical Products Regulation ( a few years prior to the handover in 1997 ), British standard extension cables, plugs and adaptors were seldom found in the market.

Before its cancellation on December 14, 2006, the O-Train, with the extension of the North-South LRT lane, would have served this station heading towards downtown.

Before the development of the UEF, archives of Acorn computer software on the World Wide Web had adopted a convention of hosting ZIP archives of the raw files on a tape, each raw file accompanied by a sidecar file, with extension, carrying the load and execution addresses from the file header.

Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Taíno people populated the island which they called Quisqueya ( mother of all lands ) and Ayiti ( land of high mountains ), and which Columbus named Hispaniola, including the territory of today's Republic of Haiti.

Before the arrival of European settlers in northern Rhode Island during the 17th century, today's Woonsocket region was inhabited by three Native American tribes — the Nipmucs ( Cowesett ), Wampanoags, and Narragansetts.

Bluth's 1988 follow-up The Land Before Time was a slightly bigger hit, grossing $ 48, 092, 846 ($ in today's dollars ) and spawning 12 sequels and a TV series.

Before it was occupied by revolutionary France in 1792, today's Rhenish Hesse had been a patchwork of possessions of the catholic Archbishopric of Mainz and Bishopric of Worms and the Protestant Electorate of the Palatinate.

Before 1914, the German Empire was much larger than today's Germany, comprising Alsace-Lorraine and the Eastern provinces.

Before the construction of the Grove-Shafter, Ashby Avenue was State Route 24, while the balance of the route of today's Warren Freeway was not a designated state highway.

Before one grandstand was demolished in 2005 the capacity was 19. 400, to today's approximately 7, 000.

Before 1964, U. S. Route 101 continued past today's end near the East Los Angeles Interchange east onto Whittier Boulevard and south on Harbor Boulevard until it met its bypass in Anaheim.

Before World War II, East San Jose was a small section of San Jose located on the east banks of the Guadalupe River and west of today's U. S. Route 101.

Before European contact, the land around today's Princeton was known among First Nations people as a source of red ochre.

Before the creation of the Moldavian SSR, today's Transnistria was part of the Ukrainian SSR, as an autonomous republic called the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with Tiraspol as its capital ( 1924 – 1940 ).

Before 1957, OR 6 included the entirety of today's Oregon Route 8, plus an additional stretch into downtown Portland.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

Before compressing, non-destructive delta filters are applied on the pixel data.

Before the existence of these boardwalks, a much narrower, lower, and less extensive system of boards and boardwalks served delta villages.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Before the 1911 reform, the multiplication of saints ' festivals, with practically the same festal psalms, tended to repeat the about one-third of the Psalter, with a correspondingly rare recital of the remaining two-thirds.

Before the attacks, Cantor handled about one-quarter of the daily transactions in the multi-trillion dollar treasury security market.

Before that, it was about 7 censuses, most part of these previous censuses was undertaken during Soviet ( USSR ) control.

Before she leaves she sternly notes that her daughter will not disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself and that Carmilla is of sound mind.

Before accepting a role as a villain in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda called Wallach and asked " What the hell does he know about the West?

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

Before Montag can finish, Mildred gets a call from her friends about coming over to watch The White Clown on the parlor walls.

" What To Do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap ", Cosmos, Volume 5, No. 2, Summer 1992.

Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament ( see Biblical Hittites ).

Later on 1 May, Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss saw Goebbels for the last time: " Before the breakout the bunker began, about ten generals and officers, including myself, went down individually to Goebbels's shelter to say goodbye.

Before the Congress opened on 13 June, negotiations between Andrássy and the British Foreign Secretary Marquess of Salisbury had already " ended on 6 June by Britain agreeing to all the Austrian proposals relative to Bosnia-Herzegovina about to come before the congress while Austria would support British demands.

Before this time many people did not speak about their concerns because of the lack of bodies.

Its landscape was shaped by the glaciers of the last Ice Age, which retreated about 25, 000 – 22, 000 years BP ( Before Present ).

Before the Mariner 4 spacecraft arrived at Mars in July 1965 and dispelled some of the more exotic theories about the planet, the conventional image of Mars was shaped by the observations of the astronomers Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell.

Fossilized leaves of Olea were found in the palaeosols of the volcanic Greek island of Santorini ( Thera ) and were dated about 37, 000 Before Present ( BP ).

* Read Before Burning: Arm's length government for a new administration-report by the Institute for Government about the quango landscape

Before the 1997 war, about 15, 000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French.

Before this, he had set about fashioning the expedition according to his own preferences, without the restraints of a joint committee.

For men to sing about very emotional things ... Before that no one would do it.