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

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

Before the release, Everlast announced on his official message board that he was not endorsing the compilation album.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official New York City missing count has risen to 4972.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official death count at the Pentagon has risen to 189, including the 64 in the plane.

Before March 5, 1973, Telnet was an ad-hoc protocol with no official definition.

Before the official development tools were released, most map development was done using aging tools such as Pfhorte-a Marathon map editor created in March 1995 by Steve Israelson.

Before its official release date on October 5, the band played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and KBCO's World Class Rockfest.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, local Christians were being persecuted by the Romans.

* @ Toon ( 2001 – 2004 ): Before each first commercial break for most of the shows, the block featured some viewer submissions and game high scores from the official website.

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

Before Utah was ever an official state Beaver was established as a county in 1886 by the Legislature of the Territory of Utah.

Before becoming an official town, the area was called Jawbone Flats.

Before her trip to Lebanon she visited Derry on one of her last official engagements to Northern Ireland, becoming the inaugural speaker at the first Conversations Across Walls and Borders event in First Derry Presbyterian Church.

Before the introduction of the official written form of Rumantsch Grischuni in 2003, books for pupils in public schools were printed in the five different idioms throughout the state.

Before the end of the 1960s, Trudeau would pass the Official Languages Act ( 1969 ), which aimed to ensure that all federal government services were available in both of Canada's official languages.

Before the official adoption of the yotta prefix, the multiple was also known as otta.

Before his political career Sorsa worked for UNESCO in Paris 1959 – 1965, and was Secretary-General of Finnish UNESCO board 1965 – 1969, and official in the Ministry of Education 1967 – 1969.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Emperor Constantine I, Diocletian and Maximian passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 that mandated monogamy was the only form of legal marital configuration, as had traditionally been the case in classical Greece and Rome themselves.

Before any official announcement, reports began running during April 1965 within the automotive press that Chevrolet was preparing a competitor to the Ford Mustang, code-named Panther.

Before the civilian government was established, Afghan air force colonel Abdul Qadir Dagarwal was the official ruler of Afghanistan for three days, starting from 27 April 1978.

Before 1967, " Zionist entity " was the standard term used by Arabs and the Arab media to refer to Israel, and was particularly popular in official broadcasts of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan during the 1960s and ' 70s.

Before the successful recall of Gray Davis, no California statewide official had ever been recalled, though there had been 117 previous attempts.

Before 2000, when the Seoul government changed the official Romanization of Hangul, Jeju-do was spelled Cheju-do.

Before its adoption as Australia's national anthem, Advance Australia Fair saw considerable use elsewhere.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of light metals such as aluminium.

Before the adoption of the current year numbering system, other systems were in use.

Before the adoption of WYSIWYG techniques, text appeared in editors using the system standard typeface and style with little indication of layout ( margins, spacing etc .).

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of wood to their excessive weight and cost.

Before the widespread adoption of the web and e-mail beginning around 1994, publications such as Factsheet Five formed a vital directory for connecting like-minded people.

Before their adoption of guns, the Plains Indians hunted with spears, bows, and bows and arrows, and various forms of clubs.

* Before the widespread adoption of CAD, engineering plans or architectural drawings were plotted onto sheets of boPET film.

Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of " good fortune " with the word speed ( Middle English spede, Old English spēd ); speed besides " good fortune " had the wider meaning of " prosperity, profit, abundance "; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help ; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in " Christ be our speed " ( William Robertson, Phraseologia generalis, 1693 ).

Before the adoption of timecode by the motion picture industry in the late 1980s, pilottone-sync was the basis of all professional magnetic motion picture sound recording systems, whereas most amateur film formats used pre-striped magnetic coating on the film itself for live-sound recording.

Before the popular adoption of " The Dons ", the team were variously known as " The Wasps " or " The Black and Golds "; both names a reference to the yellow and black striped shirts of the time.

Before the adoption of the democratic Weimar Constitution it was not allowed to teach in another language than German in school ( apart from religious education lessons ).

Before the adoption of the Skule Yell, the original cheer was significantly shorter:

Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780, it was called the Great and General Court, but the official title was shortened by John Adams, author of the state constitution, apparently in the name of republican simplicity.

Before its adoption in 1931, the official flag of the Isle of Man was the Union Flag.

Before the adoption of color-coded names, the Blue Line was referred to as the West-Northwest Route ( which it is still sometimes referred to as today ) or more commonly, the O ' Hare-Congress-Douglas route for its three branches.

Before the wide adoption of Pinyin, the name of the city ( often viewed as a county seat, i. e. Qufu xian ) was transcribed in English in a variety of ways, such as Ch ' ü-fou-hien, Kio-feu-hien, Kio-fou-hien,

Before its adoption by Nicholas I, narodnost was a central tenet of Russian Romantic writers, the Russian expression of a principle more often called Romantic nationalism.

Before their adoption of guns, the Plains Indians hunted with spears, bows and arrows, and various forms of clubs.

Before the adoption of the state constitution, Belarus had a prime minister ever since they broke away from the Soviet Union.

Before the adoption of the 2002 bylaws, the predecessor body known as the Joint Council served essentially the same role as the new World Church Leadership Council.

Before the adoption of pixel shader-enhanced bump mapping methods such as normal and parallax mapping that simulate higher mesh detail, curved 3D shapes in games were created with large numbers of triangles.

Before the adoption of the golden anchor, the symbol of Delta Gamma was simply an " H " for the word " hope.