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

Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.

Before we built the new jail, we used to keep prisoners in here overnight sometimes when the old jail got too crowded.

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 arrival of the Europeans, the African slave trade, centuries old in Africa, was not yet the major feature of the coastal economy of Guinea.

Before beginning to shoe, the farrier removes the old shoe using pincers ( shoe pullers ) and trims the hoof wall to the desired length with nippers, a sharp pliers-like tool, and the sole and frog of the hoof with a hoof knife.

Before they went metric, one Swedish mile was 10, 688 metres and a Norwegian mile was 11, 295 metres, so only a small change had to be made to the old mile to make them equal to one myriametre.

Before the playoffs, the 33-year old Riggins told coach Joe Gibbs " I'm really getting down the road.

Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children.

Before that, the earliest known proto-frog was Triadobatrachus massinoti, from the 250 million year old early Triassic of Madagascar.

Before modern factory butter making, cream was usually collected from several milkings and was therefore several days old and somewhat fermented by the time it was made into butter.

Before the Paillon River was covered over, the Pont-Neuf was the only practicable way between the old town and the modern one.

Before this, Lake Huron was a low-lying depression through which flowed the now-buried Laurentian and Huronian Rivers ; the lake bed was criss-crossed by a large network of tributaries to these ancient waterways, with many of the old channels still evident on bathymetric maps.

Before Mary died he was a member of the " old flock of Hatfield ", and from the first, the new Queen relied on Cecil.

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Before turning over the colors to another survivor of the 54th, Carney modestly said, " Boys, I only did my duty ; the old flag never touched the ground!

Before he was 30 years old, Gainsbourg was a disillusioned painter, but earned his living as a piano player in bars.

Before reaching Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single, old Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas, who delivered a message from the Roman Senate directing Antiochus to withdraw his armies from Egypt and Cyprus, or consider themselves in a state of war with the Roman Republic.

Before Potter died of tuberculosis, 28-years old, he succeeded in producing about a hundred paintings, working continuously.

Before it was moved it was an old voting booth.

Before that almost all of the old northern town adjacent to the port was demolished and subsequently rebuilt.

Before he was 5 years old, his paternal grandfather ordered all members of the Rubinstein family to convert from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy.

Before the death of the old king he became chaplain to Maurice, Bishop of London, whom he had formerly served in the chancery.

Before the French Revolution, which radically and bloodily overthrew most aspects of French society's organization, the only way that constitutional change could be instituted was by referring it to old legal documents that could be interpreted as agreeing with the proposal.

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

Before any institution invests a great deal of time and energy into building high-quality e-learning content ( which can cost over $ 10, 000 per classroom hour ), it needs to consider how this content can be easily loaded into a Learning Management System.

Before the start of World War II, Germany started building U-boats and training crews, labeling these activities as " research " or concealing them using other covers.

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

Before the CPRR was completed, developers were building other railroads in Nevada and California to connect to it.

Before its move, ONA had been a sub-tenant in the Central Office building of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ( ASIO ) in Russell, Canberra.

Before it was converted into a museum, the building was used as the Fayette County courthouse.

Before the Soviet intervention, the building was Tajbeg Palace, where Hafizullah Amin was killed.

Before the new building was completed, council services had been spread throughout Uxbridge and the rest of the borough and various buildings, as a result of the merging of the former district councils.

Before the building obtained a pub licence in 1868, it was a private residence.

Before becoming a nursing home, the building served as a hotel and at another point as a sanitarium in accordance with the beliefs of John Harvey Kellogg.

Before it was expanded and the four elementary schools built, the Junior High School building was known as Fair Plain Central.

Before 2003, the library was housed in the township ’ s municipal building on Salem Road.

Before he became famous, musician Buddy Holly played a show on the roof of the Sky Vue's projector building.

Before these inflatable fields became available and popular, speedball fields were commonly constructed of various rigid building materials, such as plywood and framing timber, shipping pallets, even concrete and plastic drainage pipe.

Before building the public clock in Nevada, the foundation is building a full-scale clock of similar design in a mountain near Van Horn, Texas.

Before and since, the building has hosted other major events, both religious and secular, that have drawn the attention of the American people.

Before the building was fully decided, he began to enforce the construction of locomotives which could overcome such upward gradients.

Before the building of the bridge over the Usk, Brecon was one of the few places where the river could be forded.

Before the 1997 General Election, the Labour Party acquired two floors of the building as its headquarters.

Before long, it was realised that control should be concentrated into one building, which came to be known as a signal box.

Before the First Sino Japanese War, China engaged in technological modernization only, buying modern weapons, ships, artillery, and building modern arsenals to produce these weapons, and only giving their soldiers modern weapons without institutional reform, and while refusing to reform the government or civil society according to western standards, unlike Japan, who adopted western style government with a Parliament and completely reoganized the army on western lines.

Before the group reached the building housing the town officials, they were attacked by a force of 100 Mexican cavalry.