Prior to the reforms of Pius XII ( which reduced the proportions further ), 1 % of the Old Testament and 16. 5 % of the New Testament had been read at Mass.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Bernards Township had been in state legislative district 16.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Bridgewater Township had been in state legislative district 16. Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted boundaries so that Bridgewater will no longer be split between districts and will be entirely within the 7th district, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Far Hills had been in state legislative district 16.

Prior to the Croatian War of Independence, the 1991 census recorded a total population of 165, 253, composed of 110, 934 ( 67. 1 %) Croats, 33, 146 ( 20. 0 %) Serbs, 3, 156 ( 1. 9 %) Hungarians, 276 ( 0. 16 %) Germans, and 17, 741 ( 10. 7 %) people categorised as Yugoslavs or ' others '.

Prior to its operational use, the squadron was reassigned to the 29th Air Division on 16 February 1953, and Rapid City AFB was re-designated as Ellsworth AFB.

Prior to Pearl Harbor, training centres were made available for the RAF ; by war's end, 16, 000 RAF aircrew were trained in the United States.

Prior to SPSS 16. 0, different versions of SPSS were available for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix.

Prior to 2002, the Security Council had passed 16 resolutions on Iraq.

Prior to 1588, the " part " ( 1 / 16 ) was the smallest unit in the avoirdupois weight system.

In June 2009 Haendel appeared on a Channel 4 television programme entitled The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies in which she advises 16 year old British composer Alexander Prior on which children to choose to play his composition.

Prior to the 1915 – 16 season, Toronto Shamrocks team owner Eddie Livingstone made two moves that infuriated the NHA and the PCHA.

Prior to Super Bowl XVII, the Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins both won three playoff games to reach the Super Bowl, but that came during the strike-shortened 1982 season when the regular season was reduced to nine games and the playoffs were expanded to 16 teams, with no teams receiving first-round byes.

Prior to the creation of the U. S. Highway system, U. S. Route 60 was Route 16.

Prior to 1815 the area now known as " Jammu and Kashmir " comprised 22 small independent states ( 16 Hindu and 6 Muslim ) carved out of territories controlled by the Afghanistan Amir ( King ) combined with those of local small rulers.

Prior to this Spencer had shown decisive form in defeating David Taylor 16 – 5 and Rex Williams 16 – 7.

Prior to the start of the 1948 – 49 season the league was expanded to 16 clubs, largely through the addition of the ' A ' teams of four London clubs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.

Prior to the 1996 provincial election, the province was divided into 16 dual-member districts, each of which was represented by one member who held the title Assemblyman and one member who held the title Councillor.

Prior to the 1986 elections Robinson was instrumental in setting up the Tobago House of Assembly ( THA ) and was its chairman from December 1980 to 16 December 1986.

Prior to the siege, in 1991 Novo Sarajevo had some 95, 089 residents, of which 33, 902 were Bosniaks ( 35. 7 %), 32, 899 were Serbs ( 34. 6 %), 8, 798 were Croats ( 9. 3 %), 15, 580 were Yugoslavs ( 16. 4 %), and 4, 391 were classified as others ( 4. 6 %).

In all, 216 were put to death ; lords and knights, half a dozen abbots, 38 monks, and 16 parish priests, including: Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Stephen Hamerton, Sir William Lumley, Sir John Constable, Sir William Constable, Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx, William Trafford, Abbot of Sawley, Matthew Mackarel, Abbot of Barlings and Bishop of Chalcedon, William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains and the Prior of Bridlington were all executed and hanged at Tyburn between June and July 1537.

Prior to the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout, Forbes Magazine ranked the Red Wings as the fifth most valuable franchise in the NHL despite a $ 16 million operating loss.

Prior world championships have been held on January 29, 2005, January 28, 2006, February 3, 2007, February 16, 2008, February 28, 2009, February 27, 2010, and February 26, 2011.

Prior to 1959 both the IUPAP and IUPAC tended to use oxygen to define the mole, the chemists defining the mole as the number of atoms of oxygen which had mass 16 g, the physicists using a similar definition but with the oxygen-16 isotope only.

Prior to 2009, the Pleistocene was defined to be 1. 805 million years ago to present, such that the present definition of the Pleistocene includes a portion of what was prior to 2009 defined as part of the Pliocene.

Prior to the taro leaf blight, Samoa's exports consisted of taro ($ 1. 1 million ), coconut cream ($ 540, 000 ), and " other " ($ 350, 000 ).

Prior to the 2001 season, star free agent shortstop Alex Rodriguez, was signed by the Rangers in the most lucrative deal in baseball history: a 10-year, $ 252 million contract.

Prior to being dissolved, the ICFTU had a membership of 157 million members in 225 affiliated organisations in 148 countries and territories.

Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

Prior to July 1999, official estimates placed the number of Falun Gong practitioners as high as 60 to 70 million nationwide, rivaling membership in the Communist Party.

Prior to human settlement, there were several million juniper trees in Bermuda.

Prior to World War II, more than 10 million ethnic Germans lived in Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to the 2009 – 10 NHL season, the Blackhawks made another major free agent purchase, signing Marian Hossa to a 12-year contract worth 62. 8 million dollars.

Prior to the 1974 – 75 season, Scallen and his ownership group from Minnesota sold the team to local media mogul Frank Griffiths for $ 9 million.

Prior to European colonization in North America, Native Americans had developed a large population in this vast land, estimated as between 1 million to 18 million, scattered across all of North America.

Prior to 2005, the city survived on " fees only " for its $ 17 million budget.

Prior to 2005, the city survived on " fees only " for its $ 17 million budget.

Prior to filing, Knight had been ordered to pay $ 107 million to Harris.

Prior to a concession of $ 300 million being added to the bill, Landrieu responded to a question on popular support of the public option, and asserted that the option has popular support because “ when people hear ‘ public option ’ they hear ‘ free health care .’ Everybody wants free health care.

Prior to his call for an election, Charest revealed his platform which included income tax cuts of about $ 250 million dollars.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, MSY served 9. 7 million passengers per year, nearly all of them non-connecting.

Prior endowments were $ 538. 4 million in 2005 and $ 195. 1 million in 1997, the rapid increases partially attributed to the " Top 20 " Plan.

The Cubs signed Prior to a contract for $ 10. 5 million, which stood as the record amount for a draft pick until 2009.

Eligible for arbitration, Prior proceeded to ask for a pay raise from his 2006 salary of $ 3. 65 million to $ 3. 875 million for 2007.

The Cubs avoided arbitration with Prior when he settled for a one year $ 3. 575 million contract for 2007.

On December 26, 2007, Prior agreed to a $ 1 million, one-year, incentive-laden contract with the San Diego Padres.