Before the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, most hijackings involved the plane landing at a certain destination, followed by the hijackers making negotiable demands.

Before the publication of this work most of the trouvère romances appeared in octosyllabic verse.

Before the introduction of the Phoenix missile, most other US aircraft relied on the smaller, less-expensive AIM-7 Sparrow ; classified as a Medium Range Missile ( MRM ).

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Before that, it was about 7 censuses, most part of these previous censuses was undertaken during Soviet ( USSR ) control.

Before many copies of the book could be printed, however, the printing press and most of the printed copies were destroyed by a mob in Missouri.

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 war, Carthage had the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.

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 the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was " calf's foot jelly ".

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 Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.

Before the development of the general-purpose computer, most calculations were done by humans.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before this date, the most precise measurement of the Imperial Standard Yard was metres.

Before came Orphée, later turned into one of his more successful films ; after came La Machine infernale, arguably his most fully realized work of art.

Before 1500 most swords were usually worn suspended from cords on a belt, edge-down.

Before that, most of these patterns were more connected to geographical regions than to any clan.

Before the actual discovery of mendelevium, the trivalent state was the most stable one in aqueous solution.

Before 1990, CPU design was often done for this market, but mass market CPUs organized into large clusters have proven to be more affordable.

Before his death in 1987, Kaye demonstrated his ability to conduct an orchestra during a comical, but technically sound, series of concerts organized for UNICEF fundraising.

Before the year was over, Brown, who had immediately returned to work with his band following his release, organized a pay-per-view concert following a show at Los Angeles ' Wiltern Theatre, that was well received.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Before North Aurora was established as a Village in 1905, there was a loosely organized volunteer fire brigade with mostly buckets and a hose cart.

Before the county of Falls was organized, the settlement of Marlin already had established private schools.

Before Darwin, and before molecular biology, the father of modern taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus, organized natural objects into kinds, that we now know reflect their evolutionary relatedness.

Before and during World War II, however, Soviet armored units were organized into corps.

Before the first court date in September 2001, Vreme magazine organized a mediation attempt between the two parties, with Kusturica and Srbljanović meeting face to face in the magazine's offices.

Before that year was over, Gomes returned to Brazil where he organized the premiere of Il Guarany in Rio de Janeiro.

Before this point, they had organized on the basis of the Curia.

* Before the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, there were large organized protests against the 1988 World Bank / IMF meetings in Berlin.

No organized cavalry formations or formations of troops equipped with projectile weapons are recorded: instead the bulk of the forces were formed in units of light, medium and heavy infantry, with bowmen or slingers distributed among the infantry units operating as light support skirmishers. Before the end of the Commonwealth at least 21 fortresses and castles had been built in Iceland. During the Age of the Sturlungs the average battle consisted of fewer than 1000 men with the average casualty rate of only 15 %.

Before the Haïdouks organized themselves as a group, many of them were recorded on an ethnomusicological album:

Before leaving UDC in February 2008 in order to join the PdL, Giovanardi and Barbieri organized their faction as Liberal Populars.

Before the election, he organized a series of campaigns, including visiting public housing estates, and travelled on the MTR for the first time in his life.

Before 2007, Stockholm City Centre was organized into five stadsdelsnämndsområden ( sometimes translated to boroughs ): Katarina-Sofia borough, Kungsholmen borough, Maria-Gamla stan borough, Norrmalm borough and Östermalm borough.

Before 2007, it was organized into eight stadsdelsnämndsområden: Enskede-Årsta, Farsta, Hägersten, Liljeholmen, Skarpnäck, Skärholmen, Vantör and Älvsjö.

Before 2007, it was organized into five stadsdelsnämndsområden ( sometimes translated to boroughs ): Bromma borough, Hässelby-Vällingby borough, Kista borough, Rinkeby borough and Spånga-Tensta borough.

Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theatre reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists ' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1909, along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger.

Before being split, the regiment was organized as follows:

Before reaching the Cape Verde Islands, the system was well enough organized to be considered a tropical depression on August 29.

Before organized search and rescue, crews had been lost for weeks, sometimes months.

Before being split, the regiment was organized as follows: