Before you use 'em the light company's got to run in a heavy line and you'll need a new fuse box for the extra circuits.

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 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 rule change, a forward pass had to be made from 5 or more yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

Before General Motors invited Bel Geddes to submit a proposal for the exhibit, they had planned to put in another production line as was featured at their exhibit in the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 in Chicago.

Before the birth of James's son on 10 June, William had been third in the line of succession.

Before construction of the Panama Canal, a stagecoach line owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company connected the lake with the Pacific across the low hills of the narrow Isthmus of Rivas.

Before that they had been run by the SRC, essentially as feeders to the rail line.

Before 1980, a section of the Commonwealth Railways Central Australian line passed along the western side of the Simpson Desert.

Before receptions — a social event that is structured around a receiving line, and usually held in the afternoon, with only light refreshments — became popular, weddings were more typically celebrated with wedding breakfasts ( for those whose religious traditions encouraged morning weddings ) and wedding balls ( for those who were married in the evening ).

Before going bankrupt, Palisades Toys was to release a line of deluxe series action figures, for adults, as part of Sesame Workshop's push to expand into retro products for teens and adults.

Before 1974, NFL teams kicked off from the 40 ; starting in 1974, the NFL moved its kickoffs back to the 35, and twenty years later, the kickoff line was pushed back to the 30.

Before this rule, missed field goals were ( if unreturned ) touchbacks, with the ball placed at the 20-yard line.

Before the construction of Waterloo International terminal in 1990, the vehicles were hoisted individually by the Armstrong lift outside the north wall of Waterloo main line station.

Before the playoffs, Torrey made the difficult decision to trade longtime and popular veterans Billy Harris and defenseman Dave Lewis to the Los Angeles Kings for second line center Butch Goring.

Before long a pro-French party took shape among the nobility, urging that she should be replaced by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the closest male relative to the infant prince, and now third in line to the throne.

* Umberto Eco's novel The Island of the Day Before ( 1995 ) ( L ' isola del giorno prima, 1994 ), a story about a 17th-century nobleman marooned across the international date line

Before 1889, the Kansas Southern Railway ( later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) had built a line from the Kansas-Oklahoma border to Purcell in Indian Territory.

Antiochus said he would discuss it with his council, whereupon the Roman envoy drew a line in the sand around him and said, " Before you cross this circle I want you to give me a reply for the Roman Senate " – implying that Rome would declare war if the King stepped out of the circle without committing to leave Egypt immediately.

Before December 2009 it had a circular route around the centre of London on the north side of the River Thames linking the main line railway termini.

Before the 2008 recession it was predicted that the coming of the East London line to Crystal Palace station would make the area more attractive for property purchasers and business owners.

Before CSX owned the line, it was part of the L & N Railway as a passenger and freight.

Before that, it was owned by the defunct Lexington and Eastern Railway Company as a passenger and freight line.

Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.

Before becoming a part of the Newark Light Rail service, it was also known as the # 7-City Subway line, an NJT Bus Operations route number that still applies internally ( during system closures, buses would also bear the number " 7 City Subway ").

Before rail closures of the 1950s and the later Beeching Axe the station was the largest of three major railway stations in the town, and was then known as Yarmouth Vauxhall .< ref >

Before the Beeching Axe the town had a number of railway stations and a direct link to London down the east coast.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Due to the Gregorian calendar's obvious connotations of Western Christianity, non-Christians and even some Christians sometimes replace the traditional era notations " AD " and " BC " (" Anno Domini " and " Before Christ ") with " CE " and " BCE " (" Common Era " and " Before Common Era ").

Before the current positive era of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox dialogues, Chalcedonians sometimes used to call the non-Chalcedonians " monophysites ", though the Coptic Orthodox Church in reality regards monophysitism as a heresy.

Before the industrial era, travel by water was often easier than over land.

Before the Christian era, sodomy was not illegal in Greek or, most believe, in Roman law, between adult citizens, but homosexual acts between citizens were considered acceptable only under certain social circumstances.

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

Before the VCR era, this would be the only opportunity audiences had of seeing a program more than once.

Before the computer mass storage era, most RTTY stations stored text on paper tape using paper tape punchers and readers.

Before the era of drug smuggling and human trafficking, smuggling had acquired a kind of nostalgic romanticism, in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped:

Before the modern era, the Bhikkhuni Sangha spread to most Buddhist countries including Burma ( also known as Myanmar ), with the notable exceptions being Tibet and Thailand.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Before the steamboat era faded, Camden had become a railroad town — served by the mainline of the Texas and St. Louis ( Cotton Belt ) and by branch lines of the Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroads.

Before the Baroque era, keyboard music generally was not written for one instrument or another, but rather was written to be played on any keyboard instrument.

Before the era of printing, manuscripts were handwritten, and so few copies existed, explaining why so much has been lost.

Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties.

Before acquiring different forms of weaponry beginning in the colonial era, Seminole ancestors originally used spears with flint, bone or cane tips, war clubs studded with sharks ' teeth, and bows and arrows.

Before Spanish colonization ( a time referred to as the prehispanic era ), two large tribes, the Caribs and the Muiscas, inhabited this part of modern day Colombia.

Before the Meiji era ( 1868 – 1912 ), each local region had its own timezone in which noon was set to when the sun is exactly at its zenith.

Before the tragedy, there was an era of static, idealized plastic art in the form of sculpture that represented the Apollonian view of the world.

Before the era of Napoleon, the area was divided into many small bits and pieces of independent states.

* University of Buffalo " Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe " Addiction Research Unit

Before the reform era, aspects of Chinese society also contributed to shaping the contemporary structure for maintaining public order.

Before the open era began, there was no prize money, other than an expense allowance, and no endorsement deals.