Before dinner, he shaved for the second time that day.

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 the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the Aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

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

Before that time, a clique of generals residing in Rio de Janeiro controlled major decisions of the army.

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

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Before this point in time, a gradual variation in the concentration of A occurs along an axis, designated x, which joins the original compartments.

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 that time the friars had only a temporary residence in Rome at the convent of San Sisto Vecchio which Honorius III had given to Dominic circa 1218 intending it to become a convent for a reformation of nuns at Rome under Dominic's guidance.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, backfield players may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one back may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the back must be still for a full second before the snap.

Before that time, pernicious anemia had been truly pernicious in that it was invariably fatal.

Before this time it was not possible to run a money-driven organization, as commodity money was the normal way of doing business.

Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time ( also known as Zulu time ) was the same as Universal Time ( UT ) which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

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

Before this time, workers showed their fury by leaving their factory and standing in picket lines.

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.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

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 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 creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

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

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.

Before that, it had been the capital of the Jin, who did not rule all of China.

Before initiating the palace coup against Khrushchev, Brezhnev had talked to several Central Committee members, and had a list which contained all of the Central Committee members who supported ousting Khrushchev.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

Before the Scourge almost all orks were enslaved by other races.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan had eleven reigns of reigning empresses, all of them daughters of the male line of the Imperial House.

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film workprint ( cutting copy in UK ) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola, or " flatbed " machine such as a K .- E .- M. or Steenbeck.

Before leaving, in a meeting with all the Papal vicars held on April 29, 1357, Albornoz issued the Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ, which regulated all the matters of the Papal States and its division into provinces.

Before this, however, he had become Earl of Aberdeen on his grandfather's death in 1801, and had travelled all over Europe.

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 the widespread availability of incendiary ammunition made commerce raiding too risky, they would also land or hover close to a merchant ship suspected of carrying contraband, order all ship's hands to leave in boats, then inspect the ship, and either destroy it or take it back to Germany as prize.

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 the invention of woodblock printing in China or by moveable type in a printing press in Europe, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand.

Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.

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

Before its downfall, the Puerto Rico railroad system operated in all major cities, with tracks and stations along most of the coastal towns and direct lines to all major sugar refineries.