Prior Diego died, after two years in the mission field, on his return trip to Spain.

Prior to that date, the loch was frozen solid for about 20, 000 years.

Prior to the reunification of Germany, many surviving Gründerzeit buildings were left uninhabited and, after years of degradation, waiting for demolition.

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 1991, the Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but during its last years it was afflicted by shortages of goods in grocery stores, huge budget deficits, and explosive growth in money supply leading to inflation.

Prior to recent years, science fiction television shows were normally centered around a premise and characters were defined essentially based on what they did or encountered in the course of their adventures.

Prior to the southwards migration of the Tai people from Yunnan in the 10th century, the Indochina peninsula had been a home to various indigenous animistic communities for as far back as 500, 000 years ago.

Prior to his election as FIFA President, Blatter was a senior FIFA official for 23 years.

* Prior to 3500 BCE ( prehistory – Stone Age and Chalcolithic ): hunter-gatherer societies slowly giving way to farming and herding societies, and early metal-working in the last thousand years ;

Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 natives were scattered throughout the local area ; by 1790, the number of converted Christians had grown to 700, and just six years later nearly 1, 000 " neophytes " ( recent converts ) lived in or around the Mission compound.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

Prior to European settlement, Groote Eylandt had been inhabited by Aboriginal people for thousands of years and there had been regular contact between local Aboriginals and Macassan traders, evident in the names of some Groote Eylandt settlements, such as Umbakumba, which can be traced back to a Macassan origin.

Prior to enrolling for the Master ’ s, the student will have studied psychology for three years as an undergraduate ( B. A., B. Sc., and, for Organisational Psychology, also B. Comm.

Prior to the 2008-09 season opener, the Blackhawks named Toews, at 20 years and 79 days, as the new captain, succeeding the traded Lapointe and making him the third-youngest captain at the time of appointment.

Prior to 1962, in addition to comics published through Dell, Western published some comics under its own name, particularly giveaways such as March of Comics and the annual kite safety title ( which featured an array of licensed characters ) published over a span of 32 years for power utility companies.

Prior to the establishment of universities, European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools ( Scholae monasticae ), in which monks and nuns taught classes ; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century AD.

Prior to that time, the area was inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of the hunter-gatherer groups of indigenous peoples during the late Woodland Period and earlier.

Prior to her marriage, she dated actor Paul Reubens for several years beginning in 1993.

Prior to the encroachment of white settlers in present day Sevier County in the mid-18th century, the area had been inhabited for as many as 20, 000 years by nomadic and semi-nomadic Native Americans.

Prior to the days of such careful planning, “ A typical black-letter page of these Gothic years would show a page in which the lettering was cramped and crowded into a format dominated by huge ornamented capitals that descended from uncial forms or by illustrations .” To prevent such poorly made manuscripts and illuminations from occurring a script was typically supplied first, “ and blank spaces were left for the decoration.

Prior to the 2010 Census, DeKalb County historically ranked second behind Fulton County for many years.

Prior to LSI, he had been with Intel for 14 years.

Prior to Delta Air Lines establishing service between New York City and Accra, Ghana, on December 11, 2006, NAA's JFK-ACC and BWI-BJL services were the only scheduled non-stop service between the U. S. and West Africa operated by a U. S. airline for several years.

Prior to the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the arrival of European settlers from Mexico, the land of the Yucaipa Valley was occupied by the Serrano Indians for possibly 1, 000 years.

Prior to 80, 000 years ago, the river ran along the east side of Pilot Butte and a lava flow from Lava Top Butte filled in this ancient channel.

Prior to the convention, O ' Malley appeared on Face the Nation, and when asked by host Bob Schieffer if he could honestly say that the country is better off than it was four years ago, he responded " no ".

Prior to 16 million years ago, the western Cascade Volcanic Arc stratovolcanoes erupted with periodic regularity for over 27 million years, even as they do today.

Prior to 2004, the last eruption may have been over 39, 000 years ago.

Prior to its being eclipsed in Western public recognition by the mass-imported B. splendens ( the Siamese fighting fish ), B. pugnax was well known as a fighting fish, attracting the interest of scientists studying animal behaviour at least as long ago as the 1880s.

Prior to 65 Ma ago, the fauna included dinosaurs, pterosaurs and marine reptiles such as mosasaurs, elasmosaurs and plesiosaurs.

Prior to the American Civil War, much of the Southern United States was covered in vast tracts of primeval hardwood forests that were suitable as habitat for the bird.

Prior to the 1870s there were vast herds of buffalo in Nebraska which provided fresh meat and jerky for the trip.

Prior to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, the vast majority of African-Americans in the United States were enslaved.

Prior to its creation, cases brought to court were tried in The Dalles, county seat of the vast Wasco County.

Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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 that, food production was expanded by simply cultivating new areas rather than through technical improvements in production methods, which was possible only because of China's vast size.

) Prior to doing so, he led the vast majority of his garrison troops on the 12-mile road to Fort Donelson, and then returned to surrender with a handful of artillerymen who were left defending the fort.

Prior to becoming home to his vast collections from his many travels, " The Castle ", as it is known, was once a hotel which played host to many famous guests, including Ripley himself and author / owner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Prior to the 1980s, the vast majority of Chilean wine was considered low quality and mostly consumed domestically.

Prior to Paracelsus, the vast majority of traditionally used crude drugs in Western medicine were plant-derived extracts.

Prior to 1857, the railroad industry was booming due to vast migrations of people to the west, especially in Kansas.

Prior to A. D. 600 the whole of Setomaa was within the vast northern Finnic lands of the indigenous Uralic peoples.

Prior to his death in 1816, he bequeathed his vast estates to his cousin, the 11th Earl of Pembroke.

Prior to its creation, Quezon was once part of a vast track of agricultural land called the Mallig Plains.

Prior to their arrival, the Hurricanes and the Coliseum were required to make vast improvements to the arena in order to satisfy NHL regulations.