Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV.

Before that, dating back to 1970, writers voted for three pitchers, with the formula of 5 points for a first place vote, 3 for a second place vote and 1 for a third place vote.

Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings typical of instruments in the string family or the four strings of instruments in the violin family.

* Before the 2011 season, three new scoreboards beyond right-center field were installed: a 38-by-100-foot scoreboard in right-center field, a 17-by-100-foot video screen in center field, a 16-by-30-foot video board in right field, along with a new video control room.

Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first on the run, then in prison, and then, awaiting a change of the extradition treaty, then with house arrest, and finally in prison again.

Before recording, Parsons and Harris played a preliminary three show mini-tour as the headline act in a Warner Brothers country-rock package.

Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records.

Before the First Fleet sailed to found a convict settlement in New South Wales, Governor Arthur Phillip's final instructions, received less than three weeks before sailing, included the requirement to colonise Norfolk Island to prevent it falling into the hands of France, whose naval leaders were also showing interest in the Pacific.

Before November 22, 2006 the games were divided into three categories: Puzzle, Action, and Luck / Chance.

Before the start level, there is a set of three pathways with easy, medium, and hard skill levels ; in order to reach the Nightmare skill level ( described in the game manual as " so bad that it was hidden, so people won't wander in by accident "< ref > ID Software.

Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

Before initial contact ( 1650 ), the English, based on reports from Algonquian natives, thought the three tribes were one people, grouped by the Algonquian exonym as the Mangoag.

Before racing, each athlete received three sheets of paper listing a few rules and a course description.

Before admission to the Union, Texas, as an independent nation, controlled water within three miles of the coast, the normal limit for nations.

Before 1972, Zambia had three significant political parties — UNIP, the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress, and the United Progressive Party ( UPP ).

Before its planned February 21, 1967 launch, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three men.

Before pre-production could begin, Moe fell ill from lung cancer, and died three months later on May 4, 1975.

Before the end of the war in August 1945, the HEW built 554 buildings at Hanford, including three nuclear reactors ( 105-B, 105-D, and 105-F ) and three plutonium processing canyons ( 221-T, 221-B, and 221-U ), each long.

Allmusic has described the album as a favourite among the band's hardcore fans, and it is the first of three Queen albums to feature in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

It is also the second of three Queen albums to feature in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Before his methods were commercialised in 1987 his laboratory was the only centre carrying out DNA fingerprinting in the world, and during this period of about two or three years it was very busy, receiving inquiries from all over the globe.

Before these royal marriages, Darius married a commoner with whom he had three sons, Artobarzanes ( the first born ), Arabignes and Arsamenes, while daughters are not known.

| 2 | Before the Romans, came the Phoenicians, by sea from the eastern Mediterranean about three thousand years ago.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Before the towed artillery can be used, it has to stop, unlimber and set up the guns.

# Before fading in the new track, check that the beats of two tracks match by listening to both channels together in the headphones, as the sound from the speakers can reach you with a delay.

Before Mu Bai can kill Fox, the masked thief reappears and partners with Fox to fight.

As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

The terms " Common Era ", " Anno Domini ", " Before the Common Era " and " Before Christ " in contemporary English can be applied to dates that rely on either the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar.

Before it emerged as a unique discipline, control engineering was practiced as a part of mechanical engineering and control theory was studied as a part of electrical engineering, since electrical circuits can often be easily described using control theory techniques.

Before he can answer, the Kents tell her that they raised Superman alongside Clark like a brother.

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

Before Xavier can heal Daken a psychic bomb explodes causing Xavier to become comatose and Daken to wake up.

Before going further with serious experimentation, it can be convenient to check one ’ s programs at the PC using a suitable cross-assembler, such as the portable PDP-8 / DG Nova cross-assembler listed in the External links section, before attempting execution in the RDOS environment.

Before anyone can move, tiles are drawn and laid out across the board.

Before she can strike it, the firemen flee, save for Montag, who watches as the woman lights the match, drops it in the kerosene, and is engulfed in flames.

Before Montag can finish, Mildred gets a call from her friends about coming over to watch The White Clown on the parlor walls.

* Short-lived nature of gene therapy – Before gene therapy can become a permanent cure for any condition, the therapeutic DNA introduced into target cells must remain functional and the cells containing the therapeutic DNA must be long-lived and stable.

" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.

Before John Doe can be granted access to protected information it will be necessary to verify that the person claiming to be John Doe really is John Doe.

The spokesperson for Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Avi Shafran, attacked the film with an article " Dissembling Before G-d ", maintaining that gay people can be cured through therapy, and that the movie is meant to promote homosexuality:

Before he can sell the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, he is discovered by the British and is killed by members of MI5 who stage his death as a heart attack.

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 a new Big 8 newsgroup can be created, an RFD ( Request For Discussion ) must be posted into the newsgroup news. announce. newgroups, which is then discussed in news. groups. proposals.

Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo processing to clean the gas and remove impurities including water to meet the specifications of marketable natural gas.