Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Prior to the early 20th century, all shotgun barrels were forged by heating narrow strips of iron and steel and shaping them around a mandrel.

Prior to the second world war, the subject was commonly known as radio engineering and basically was restricted to aspects of communications and radar, commercial radio and early television.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor Nero for the release of several Jewish priests.

Prior to the arrival of the Europeans in the early 1700s, Samoa's history was interwoven with that of certain chiefdoms of Fiji as well as the history of the kingdom of Tonga.

Prior thinkers, particularly nominalist William of Ockham in the early 14th century, had begun the intellectual movement toward empiricism.

Bust of Aristotle, whose Prior Analytics contained an early discussion of this fallacy.

* 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 early 1980s, season-ending cliffhangers were rare on U. S. television.

Prior to his career as a cameraman, Bitzer developed early cinematic technologies for the American Mutoscope Company, eventually to become the Biograph Company.

Prior to this, as late as the 1970s and early 80s, First Nations and Inuit in Canada, as Native Americans in the United States, were forced into residential schools imposed on them by the Canadian government to integrate indigenous cultures into European-Canadian society.

Prior to this time the early 6th century territory was known as Osraighe, referring to the whole district or the capital.

Prior to this, it had been assumed that no one would watch TV at such an early hour.

Prior to the early 1950s, Shelter Key ( on which most of Key Colony Beach is located ) was a low-lying island.

Prior to the early 18th Century Bremen and most of Georgia was home to American Indians belonging to a southeastern alliance known as the Creek Confederacy.

Prior to this time, many early ranchers had driven cattle over the Great Western Cattle Trail from Texas to Dodge City, Kansas, the present townsite of Elk City being in the direct path of that famous trail.

Prior to the sudden onset of the rainy season in mid-to late fall, there are often days with a very wide disparity between daytime and nighttime temperatures, sometimes exceeding 20 C / 36 F. There is far less wind in the fall than in spring and early summer.

Prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, the early Quaker settlers became dissatisfied with the quality of the farmland within Newberry Township and began moving out of it.

Prior to this the area had been inhabited by local Native American Salish tribes that had contact with the early Spanish and British traders.

Prior to and during the early European settlement, the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway to the Mississippi River system was one of the most heavily traveled routes between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

Prior to that, she appeared in small roles in The Jazz Singer and a number of early lavish Technicolor musicals, including The Show of Shows, The Bride of the Regiment, and Under A Texas Moon.

Prior to the 2005 induction of the " Magnificent Five " individuals from the early and mid 20th century had been largely ignored.

Prior to that team's existence, other early football teams ( such as the Buffalo Bills of the AAFC ) used the nickname, solely due to name recognition, as Bill Cody had no special connection with the city.

Prior to the mid 1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

Prior to the integration of Newfoundland's public ( government-funded ) school system in the late 1990s, those public schools administered by the Catholic Church mandated strict, uniform-like dress codes ( shirts and ties for boys, dresses or skirts for girls ), though many girls were outraged at this due to the freezing weather, at the elementary and junior high school levels, lifting most restrictions for high school students.

Prior to the 1990s there was a wide cooperation between pioneer and similar movements of about 30 countries, coordinated by the international organization, International Committee of Children's and Adolescents ' Movements (, CIMEA ), founded in 1958, with headquarters in Budapest.

Prior to that, and particularly in the early 1990s, it was not uncommon for affiliates to preempt part or all of ABC's cartoon lineup with local programming.

" T. C. Jerdon noted that " his is the most common Vulture of India, and is found in immense numbers all over the country, ... At Calcutta one may frequently be seen seated on the bloated corpse of some Hindoo floating up or down with the tide, its wing spread, to assist in steadying it ..." Prior to the 1990s they were even seen as a nuisance, particularly to aircraft as they were often involved in bird strikes.

Prior to the 1990s, it was common for party and government officials to participate in the actual drafting of newspaper editorials.

Prior to the opening of SilverCity, in the late 1990s there was a Famous Players theatre located near the Palace Casino, as well as a second Cineplex Odeon below Ed's Recreation Centre ( formerly Red's ), on the main level with the Gourmet Court ( Phase III ).

Prior to the popularity of the internet in the 1990s, the most efficient way to distribute software and files across bbs's was via a courier system.

Prior to the 1990s the term " carjacking " did not exist.

Prior to the 1990s, supermoto bikes, including the precursor motorcycles used in Superbikers, were converted open-class two-stroke motocross or enduro bikes desired for their light weight and jumping abilities.

Prior to the 1990s the station was closed on Sundays.

Prior to these DVD releases, the BBC brought episodes to VHS in the 1990s.

Prior to the 1990s and 2000s no serial in Shōnen Sunday had run over 40 volumes, but that began to change with series such as Meitantei Conan, MAJOR, InuYasha, Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi and Karakuri Circus, which maintained a high level of popularity.

Prior to the 1990s, the ROC had been a one-party authoritarian state committed to eventual reunification with mainland China.

Prior to his life as the Sultan or Agong, and even during the 1980s and early 1990s, Tunku Mahmud's reputation was more or less marred by a number of alleged controversial incidents which received occasional attention from the media.

Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist Christians concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist.

Prior to his career as a democratic reformist, Nabavi was considered an ideologue of the Iranian Islamic left until that force was sidelined by conservatives in the 1990s.

Prior to the 1990s there were only a handful of independent schools in Sweden, mostly tuition-funded boarding schools.

Prior to his retirement in the late 1990s, he also did voiceovers for the Game Show Network.

Prior to the 1990s, Argentine Tango was taught with a didactic method ; teaching tango by having students copy examples shown by the instructor.

Prior to that, it also had been a Rhythmic Top 40 simulcast of WWHT and its successor WAKS during the 1990s.

Prior to Brand New's official formation, in the late 1990s Jesse Lacey, Garrett Tierney, Brian Lane were all members of the post-hardcore band The Rookie Lot, along with Brandon Reilly and Alex Dunne of Crime in Stereo.

Prior to the late 1990s, the village was also accessible by railway.

Prior to Vale's purchase of Inco, a major construction effort by Inco in the early 1990s dramatically scrubbed waste gases before pumping them up the Superstack.