Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.

Before long the atmosphere reverted to its old normalcy, and insects hummed and birds occasionally called.

Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

: Before this time, and a long time thereafter, they believed in groves and barrows, sanctuaries, and sacred enclosures and in the pagan gods.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before the publication of Villette, Charlotte received a proposal of marriage from Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate who had long been in love with her.

Before long, the Spanish began growing cacao beans on plantations, and using an African workforce to help manage them.

Before long, and much to the embarrassment of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems the Soviet government had long denied and actively concealed.

Before long, bills weren't being paid, authors ' advances and royalties were delayed, budgets were cut back, and most of Donald's time was spent trying to soothe authors and agents who were indignant, and had every right to be, at the way they were treated.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

Before Guam's inclusion, calling the U. S. required dialing the international 011 first, thus resulting in higher long distance rates and less frequent calls to the U. S. by relatives in Guam.

Before long, much to the embarrassment of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems which the Soviet government had long denied and covered up.

Before long, powdermakers standardized the process by forcing mill cake through sieves instead of corning powder by hand.

All Genoshan mutants leave for Asteroid M. Before long, the country is taken over by Magneto who is ready to declare war on humanity with the Genoshan mutants by his side, following an attack on Professor X during an anti-mutant summit.

Before long, much of the south and west was under the control of the Nationalists, whose regular Army of Africa was the most professional force available to either side.

Before long, a falcon representing Horus became the norm as the animal on top, with the individual Pharaoh's symbol usually appearing in the box beneath the falcon, and above the stripes representing the palace.

Before long steam power was applied to drive textile machinery.

Before long, scientific inquiries provoked by his claims had pushed back the age of the earth into the millions of yearsstill too short when compared with the accepted 4. 6 billion year age in the 21st century, but a distinct improvement.

Before long, the Americo-Liberian ruling elite was living rather prosperously, sending their children to America for ( often racially segregated ) high school and college education, and keeping the indigenous peoples excluded from all political and economic leadership.

Before long, the Borgia family no longer needed the Sforzas, and the presence of Giovanni Sforza in the papal court was superfluous.

Before long, the CEOs and CFOs of many smaller and mid-sized companies previously limited to the slow and expensive private-placement market were making early-morning pilgrimages to Beverly Hills seeking to issue high-yield and / or convertible bonds through Drexel Burnham.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

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

Before your first training experiment has ended there will be a big improvement and almost before you know it you'll be raising and lowering yourself just like a veteran!!

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

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 World War I there were more than 3, 500 cheese producers in Britain, while fewer than 100 remained after the Second World War.

* " Before the Day of Judgment there will be great liars, so beware of them.

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 the first Europeans arrived, there was no written history in the territory.

Before 2007 there existed only a few other places on the Formula 1 calendar with a body of water close to the track.

Before Cantor, there were only finite sets ( which are easy to understand ) and " the infinite " ( which was considered a topic for philosophical, rather than mathematical, discussion ).

Before cheap Internet, there were some geographically compact communities where the culture encouraged Weinberg's egoless programming, and a developer could easily attract a lot of skilled kibitzers and co-developers.

Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.

* Without Colors — Before there was an atmosphere, everything was the same shade of gray.

Before the 1960s deinstitutionalization there were earlier efforts to free psychiatric patients.

Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and fuck her ".

Before 1780 there was no good method for making copies of letters or drawings.

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

Before 1995 there were five known consistent superstring theories ( henceforth referred to as string theories ), which were given the names Type I string theory, Type IIA string theory, Type IIB string theory, heterotic SO ( 32 ) ( the HO string ) theory, and heterotic E < sub > 8 </ sub >× E < sub > 8 </ sub > ( the HE string ) theory.

Before the league was started, there were strong rumors that the NBA would purchase the CBA, and call it its developmental league, as the Continental Basketball Association was its " minor league " affiliate for years.

Before the Cambrian era, it becomes much more difficult since there are fewer rock exposures preserved.

Before the vaccine was introduced in 1963, there were an estimated 3 – 4 million