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 that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.

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.

Before computers, photo manipulation was achieved by retouching with ink, paint, double-exposure, piecing photos or negatives together in the darkroom, or scratching Polaroids.

Before his death, Paynter had dipped his finger in ink and written " yellow jasmine " on his newspaper, a plant growing all over the house, as well as drawing two lines at right angles under the words, a sign similar to the beginning of the number 4.

Before World War II ships were collected into divisions derived from the Royal Navy's " division " of the line of battle in which one squadron usually remained under the direct command of the Admiral of the Fleet, one squadron was commanded by a Vice Admiral, and one by a Rear Admiral, each of the three squadrons flying different coloured flags, hence the terms flagship and flag officer.

Before 1986 no Alapaha Bulldogs where registered and hence not considered a pure breed, until the Lane family of Rebecca Georgia having and been breeding these dogs for over 80 yrs, of Southern United States registered this rare breed with ARF, one of the oldest registries in the United States of America.

Before 1908, revolutionaries focused on coordinating these organizations in preparation for uprisings that these organizations would launch ; hence, these groups would provide most of the manpower needed for the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.

Before his playing career he was a schoolmaster, hence his nickname.

Before the release of the album RuPaul was known primarily for being the only drag queen supermodel ( hence the album title ).

Before the oil crisis felt weighed about 15 pounds per square ( one square = 100 square feet ) and hence the asphalt-impregnated felt was called " 15 #" or " 15 pound felt ".

Before the PPV the decision had been made to fold the WWA, hence the titles were to be unified with the NWA and TNA titles.

Before the theory of quantum mechanics was fully developed, there were two known field theories, namely gravitation and electromagnetism ( these two are sometimes referred to as classical field theories, as they were formulated before the advent of quantum mechanics, and hence do not take into account quantum phenomena ).

Before 1803, it was part of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster ( hence the name Münsterland ).

Before Edinburgh's roads were improved, Corstorphine was a major route from central Edinburgh over to Glasgow ( hence the name " Glasgow Road " in the west of Corstorphine ).

* Before Islam, Sa ' īd's father, Zayd bin Amr was a hanif, a follower of the monotheistic tradition of Abraham, and hence never worshipped idols nor ate meat slaughtered in the name of idols.

Before more modern forms of pens were invented, the trees ' unripe seed pods were sawed in half to make decorative pen sandboxes ( also called pounce pots ), hence the name ' sandbox tree '.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

Before Caldwell, the word was traditionally used to designate the Tamil language and people, and vaguely the people of South India.

Before the late 19th century, the word " Lesbian " referred to any derivative or aspect of Lesbos, including a type of wine.

Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word " gender " to refer to anything but grammatical categories.

The word for Tabernacle, mishkan, is a derivative of the same root and is used in the sense of dwelling-place in the Bible, e. g. Psalm 132: 5 (" Before I find a place for God, mishkanot ( dwelling-places ) for the Strong One of Israel.

Before graduating from high school he had written four novels, one of which was a 70, 000 word romance about Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

Before the publication of Miscegenation, the word amalgamation, borrowed from metallurgy, had been in use as a general term for ethnic and racial intermixing.

Before the visit was completed, the crew received word that their Pacific cruise was canceled.

Before long the word was out and musicians began showing up, turning his gigs into jam sessions.

Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of " good fortune " with the word speed ( Middle English spede, Old English spēd ); speed besides " good fortune " had the wider meaning of " prosperity, profit, abundance "; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help ; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in " Christ be our speed " ( William Robertson, Phraseologia generalis, 1693 ).

Before the days of motorized vehicles, the word referred to the front or after compartment of a Continental stagecoach.

Before the enactment of section 21 of the Theft Act 1968, the word blackmail was not a legal term of art.

Before the battle, chronicler Theophanes the Confessor says, the Emperor dreamed of being at Thessalonika, this dream predicted his defeat against the Arabs because the word Thessalonika is similar to the sentence " thes allo niken ", that means " gave victory to another ( the enemy )".

Before the mid-1980s, most " bars " were referred to simply as pubs ; the word " tavern " was never prevalent in Canada.

Before dying Petrofsky manages to say one last word: “ Philby ”.

In his appearance on the " Where No Fan Has Gone Before " episode of the animated science-fiction TV series Futurama, aired on April 21, 2002, Shatner recited Eminem's hit " The Real Slim Shady " during a feast, both raising and answering the question of how one can perform a spoken word rendition of a rap song.

Before dawn on 19 June, his little army was taken by surprise and almost destroyed, because Bruce had accepted Valence at his word and failed to take the precaution of placing pickets around the camp.

Before then, the word " science " simply meant knowledge and the label of scientist did not exist.

Before the discovery of America, the word Hart was common in surnames.

Before 1947, the word qirsh was spelled with the initial Arabic letter غ, after which the word began with ق.

Before 1961, the flag of Kuwait, like those of other Gulf states, was red and white with the word " الكويت " in the middle.