Before 1940 Finland was a poor rural nation of urban and rural workers and independent farmers.

Before they moved into the fort, the area farmers had just used the water from Four Mile Creek.

Before ranchers and farmers began altering the landscape, the area was once part of a vast grassland.

Before refrigerated rail cars, meat had to be transported live, and this placed its cost so high that only farmers and the wealthy could afford it every day.

( Before we encounter him in the novel, before the sunstroke, Anse had cleared his own farm and fixed up a house on his own so that he could start building a family, and all of these characteristics are consistent with common maladies suffered by rural farmers in harsh conditions )

Before 1800 there was practically nothing standing in the area today called San Ġiljan, except for Spinola Palace, the old church, and a few fishermen ’ s huts and farmers ’ dwellings dotting the countryside.

Before the Gaza Strip's closure to Israel in 2000 following the Al-Aqsa Intifada, most residents had taken a number of various jobs in Israel or worked as farmers at local tells and pastures.

Before the sacrifice, the sacrificial victim was led three times around a grain field where a chorus of farmers and farm-servants danced and sang praises for Ceres and offered her libations of milk, honey and wine.

Before the 1600s, the area now-a-days surrounding Gorredijk was sparsely populated by farmers who herded sheep, kept bees and produced buckwheat, oat, rye, peas, beans, flax and various herbs.

* Before the American Civil War many farmers in the USA had an alcohol still to turn crop waste into free lamp oil and stove fuel for the farmers ' family use.

Before then, farmers relentlessly cleared wooded space to be able to cultivate land, their only survival mean.

Before the Qing Empire ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895, Taiwan ’ s culture was characterized by Qing frontier societies of Han farmers and highland Aborigines.

Before 1900 most people thought that yellow corn was fit only for animals, so in order to change their customers ' minds, many farmers slipped Golden Bantam corn in with the white corn they were selling.

Before the Middle Ages, Helsingør was just a marketplace where people sold goods.

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

In 2005, she released Stronger Than Before, sold exclusively in the United States by Hallmark.

Before the novel's publication, Anne Rice had sold the film rights to Interview with the Vampire to Paramount Pictures, who did nothing with the property for the ten years of their contract.

Before the first small farm homes had been sold, Bud Wright's wife, Emily Vose Wright, a deeply religious woman, had christened the development Zelzah, a Biblical name for " oasis ," or " watering place in the desert.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Before the plat was formally recorded, Standish sold some of his land in the community and the town was initially named " Granton.

Before 1484 only food products for its own population were allowed to be sold.

Before the release of the fifth book, 200 million copies of the first four books had already been sold and translated into 55 languages in 200 countries.

Before the play opened on Broadway, producer Morton Gottlieb and author Bernard Slade, had sold the movie rights to Paramount for over $ 1 million.

Before the record-setting 2011 auction, Christie's sold two: in 2005, a 1955 painting sold for $ 7. 8m.

Before the RCA re-release, the band's first three albums had sold 70, 000 combined units.

Before and after the Wedding Day Midge doll was sold, many Midge play line dolls were produced.

Before Wedding Day Midge, Midge dolls still had freckles, but up until Hawaii Midge was sold in 1999, the dolls lacked freckles.

Before the opening of their first season, the Sounders already had the highest number of season ticket holders in the MLS after they sold all 22, 000 of the offered season ticket packages.

Before being re-released as freeware on 31 August 2008 by Electronic Arts Command & Conquer: Red Alert had sold over three million copies.

Before Nevermind was released, Bleach had sold 40, 000 units in North America.

Before offering it to Glenn Miller, Garland sold the tune to Artie Shaw, who could not record it because the original arrangement was too long.

Before Thompson closed it in June 2003, the website had indicated that a handful of flights during the company's first week of proposed service in July 2003 had actually sold out and reservations could not be made.

Before the 2008 season, Mandalay Baseball Properties sold the team to Stevens Baseball Group.

Before the 1920 – 21 season, the NHL took back the franchise, and sold it to Hamilton owners who moved the team to Hamilton where it became the Tigers.

Before the prime book selling season, their book had sold 250, 000 copies in Britain.

Before SNK was bought out, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was being advertised on US television and units were being sold nationally in Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys " R " Us, and other large retail chains.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.

Before the accelerometers are mounted on the platform, the direction of their sensitive axis must be accurately determined.

Before He left them He promised that His peace would be their portion to abide in their hearts and minds.

Before this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.

Before the enactment of the metric system, many countries in Europe used their own official acres.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

Before leaving, he buried his sandals, shield, and sword under a huge rock and told her that, when their son grew up, he should move the rock and bring the weapons to his father, who would acknowledge him.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before this time bricks were generally made close to their point of intended use.

Before their departure, the ship of the commander Belisarius was anchored in front of the Imperial palace, and the Patriarch offered prayers for the success of the enterprise.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Before the advent of rock and roll, concept albums had their original heyday in jazz of the early to mid ' 50s with artists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, the latter of whom would record numerous concept albums for Capitol throughout the last half of the ' 50s such as In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Where Are You?

Before the development of X-ray diffraction crystallography ( see below ), the study of crystals was based on their geometry.

Before the Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the I discs ( as well as other documents ) by their Social Insurance Number.

Lieutenant General Ēmile Janssens, the FP commander, wrote during a meeting of soldiers that ' Before independence = After Independence ', pouring cold water on the soldiers ' desires for an immediate raise in their status.

Before these modifications, the design of their shoulders was closer to instruments of the violin family.

Before central power stations were widely introduced it was common for industries, large hotels and commercial buildings to generate their own power and use low pressure exhaust steam for heating.

Before the Prussians and their neighbors to the west, the Pomeranians, were finally brought to heel, Polish rulers and the Duchy of Masovia, both by then Christianised peoples, would be continually frustrated in their aims at northern expansion.

Before their salary negotiations for the third season, the cast decided to enter collective negotiations, despite Warner Bros .' preference for individual deals.

* Canon 22: Before prescribing for the sick, physicians shall be bound under pain of exclusion from the Church, to exhort their patients to call in a priest, and thus provide for their spiritual welfare.