Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

Prior to the 1867 Reform Bill the working class did not possess the vote and therefore had little tangible political power.

Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God.

Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahāyāna metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.

Prior movements had all originated in cities which were home to at least two teams.

Prior to this, his political views had been conservative.

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

Prior to his death, he had, at his wife Plectrude's urging, designated Theudoald, his grandson by their son Grimoald, his heir in the entire realm.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Prior to partition, both regions had cholera pathogens with similar characteristics.

Prior to the hiatus, the strip ’ s characters had aged at the tectonically slow rate standard for comic strips.

Prior to this period, the College had clung to traditional methods of instruction and was relatively poorly funded.

Prior to this assignment, no women had lived on island since those on the plantation in 1971.

Prior to this, most music heard on radio was live ; most radio stations had an orchestra or band on the payroll.

As time passed, Prior Diego sanctioned the building of a monastery for girls whose parents had sent them to the care of the Albigensians because their families were too poor to fulfill their basic needs.

" Prior to Draper, Beauchamp & Davidson had also offered a definition which includes these elements, although they offered a somewhat longer account, and one that specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia:

Prior to 1986, the Australian banks organized a widespread uniform credit card, called Bankcard, which had been in existence since 1974.

Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.

: Prior to the 19th century, Otomo was understood to have been a mere interloper, a pretender, an anomaly ; and therefore, if that commonly-accepted understanding were to have been valid, then it would have followed:

: Prior to the 19th century, Otomo was understood to have been a mere interloper, a pretender, an anomaly ; and therefore, if that commonly-accepted understanding were to have been valid, then it would have followed:

: Prior to the 19th century, Otomo was understood to have been a mere interloper, a pretender, an anomaly ; and therefore, if that commonly-accepted understanding were to have been valid, then it would have followed:

Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.

Prior to this discovery, biologists had been largely unable to establish a family tree of cats from the fossil record because the fossils of different cat species all look very much alike, differing primarily in size.

Prior to this work, the concept of a set was a rather elementary one that had been used implicitly since the beginnings of mathematics, dating back to the ideas of Aristotle.

Prior to the Crucifixion the Jews are called Israelites, the honorific title of God's chosen people ; after it, they are called " Ioudaioi ", Jews, a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the " kingdom of Heaven " has been taken away from them and given instead to the church.

Prior uses of machine readable media had been for control ( automatons such as piano rolls or looms ), not data.

Prior to the discovery of the Haber process, ammonia had been difficult to produce on an industrial scale.

Prior to independence as Zimbabwe, the nation had been known by several names: Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.

Prior to nationalisation, the island's telegraph operations had been performing poorly and the company's share price valued it at around £ 100.

Prior to this paper, limited information-theoretic ideas had been developed at Bell Labs, all implicitly assuming events of equal probability.

Prior to that, any problems had been mostly denied by TBS-clinics themselves.

Prior to locomotives, the motive force for railroads had been generated by various lower-technology methods such as human power, horse power, gravity or stationary engines that drove cable systems.

Prior to this, Huitzilopochtli was associated primarily with hunting, presumably one of the important subsistence activities of the itinerant bands that would eventually become the Mexica.

Prior to the founding of Libre, they had played in one of Palmieri's most experimental salsa bands.

Prior to Pelot's arrival, the area around Lake Lillian was a popular resting place for Native American bands including the Seminole tribe under Osceola.

Prior to British colonization, the Connecticut River valley was populated by bands of the Western Abenaki, who lived in sometimes-large villages of longhouses.

Prior to the exercises at the school there was a grand parade, in which many secret societies from in and out of town took part, together with bands of music ...

Prior to the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876, the area was used by Native Americans ( primarily bands of Sioux but others also ranged through the area ) who would spear fish in the creek ( hence the name of the creek and subsequently the town ).

Prior to this the atmosphere at the Rex had been jovial, with the UVF spectators even joining in to sing UDA songs along to the tunes of the UDA-aligned flute bands.

Prior to King Philip's War, tensions fluctuated among specific bands and tribes of Native Americans and the colonists, but relations were generally peaceful.

The region produced no significant bands in the electric folk movement of the 1970s but can claim one of the most significant figures, as Maddy Prior was brought up in Blackpool.

Prior to English colonization, the area which is now northeastern New England was populated by bands of the Abenaki, who lived in sometimes large villages of longhouses.

Prior to those bands, Kasher was in a band called Slowdown Virginia.

Prior to joining Hanoi Rocks, Razzle had played in UK-based bands Thin Red Line, The Fuck Pigs, Demon Preacher ( Featurning Nik Fiend of later Alien Sex Fiend fame ), and The Dark.

Prior to this show, few if any unsigned bands played local high profile clubs like the Whisky and The Roxy.

Prior to his later, more famous work in the 1970s with Alex Chilton, Bell played in a number of Memphis bands beginning in the 1960s.

Prior to European settlement, the Jameco and Canarsie bands of Lenape Native Americans frequented this area.

Prior to Options for Change and the formation of the Corps of Army Music most regiments, especially in the infantry, maintained their own military bands.

Prior to the group's formation, Stacy Jones was well known for being a drummer in the successful alternative rock bands Veruca Salt and Letters to Cleo.

Prior to the showbands, most " bands " in Ireland in the early 1950s were similar to the big bands of the 1940s.

Prior to more recent highway bypass construction, Dillon was, and still is to a lessened extent, a fuel stop on the Charlotte-Wilmington-Myrtle Beach circuit traveled by many unsigned and local bands.

Prior to us, Mark had done bands like AC / DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels.

Prior to joining Placebo, Hewitt was a member of various bands such as Electric Crayons, K-Klass, The Mystic Deckchairs, The Boo Radleys and Breed.

Prior to auditioning for American Idol, she worked for the United States Postal Service as a Rural Letter Carrier and sung with local bands in Southwest Florida.

Prior to that he played in bands including Blunt, Jerkwater, and the Traitors.

Prior to formation, the four founding members of Taxiride — Singh, Wild, Hall, and Tim Watson — had been playing in cover bands around Melbourne, travelling around in a yellow Ford Falcon EB ex-taxi.