• And secondly, well before the flood the English game was dominated by a Liverpool side who based their game on relentless passing and movement.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Tim Vickery column

  • Complications: Before the flood the refinery did some hedges that have the effect of locking in profits if the refinery is running but locking in losses if it isn't.

    FORBES: Slick

  • The council had been due to start major work on a culvert in Cilfynydd Road on Monday before the flood hit and a decision will be taken on when that can start.

    BBC: Homes evacuated in estate flood

  • We have an opportunity to be independent from any means of federal programs, any type of issues that we had been not needing before the flood of Elbowoods, North Dakota, in the 1950s.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Opens Tribal Nations Conference

  • The Canal Flood Mitigation Task Force created by the state Legislature after the 2006 flood was supposed to meet at least six times and issue a report, but it never convened before the 2011 flood.

    WSJ: Homeowners sue NY over $4.6M in flood damage

  • The lawsuit says the state created a task force to address potential flooding along the river after devastating floods in June 2006, but the task force never convened before the 2011 flood.

    WSJ: Homeowners sue NY over $4.6M in flood damage

  • Up to 6 feet of water spilled into an industrial park in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans at one point late Monday morning, pouring through small gaps in the concrete flood walls before receding in the afternoon.

    CNN: Concerns about New Orleans-area levee ease

  • Some home owners claimed they had been assured before buying the properties that flood defences were adequate.

    BBC: Glasdir estate in Ruthin

  • Spillway gates are likely to be open for weeks, meaning it will be some time before the river falls below flood stage, allowing evacuees to return.

    CNN: Mississippi governor urges caution as river crests

  • Officials said the spillway gates are likely to be open for weeks, and it will be weeks before the river falls below flood stage, allowing those who have evacuated to return safely.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The regulations were drawn up and agreed by both teams before the start of the series, and these stated that flood lights would not be used in day games.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • Some of the spillway's gates will likely be open for weeks, and it'll be at least that long before the river falls safely below flood stage and those who have evacuated can safely return, said Col.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • It had been 54 days since the tiny girl fell off a New Orleans rooftop into a savagely swift flood in the hours before Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

    CNN: 'I knew it was over with'

  • The center is trying to do what it could not do before: pluck obscure bits of information from the flood of often irrelevant or insignificant data and connect the dots to foil a major new attack.

    CNN: At the crossroads of terror

  • Silted-up rivers must be expensively dredged before the dry season ends in May, or they will flood again with the first rains.

    ECONOMIST: Honduras and Nicaragua

  • And he roams the badlands of the central Australian bush, where the red gums wait for the river to flood before releasing their seeds to be carried away and germinate downstream.

    ECONOMIST: Trees

  • Italy full-back Andrea Marcato pushed an early penalty wide for the hosts before Johne Murphy sliced through in midfield, with Flood on hand to take the scoring pass and add the conversion.

    BBC: Treviso 16-60 Leicester

  • But Week In Week Out discovered the percentage of schemes being passed now is the same as before the legislation - 745 schemes have been given the go-ahead in flood risk areas since 2004.

    BBC: Flooding 'to hit more in Wales', climatologist warns

  • In January, just before the general election, it suffered a flood of defections which was stemmed only when Sonia declared she was joining active politics.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • The Environment Agency is in the process of a new flood defence scheme for the city, which was planned before the floods, to reduce the risk of floods.

    BBC: Flood aftermath still being felt

  • We're supposed to raise the house three foot, before we can get flood insurance again.

    NPR: Coming to Terms with New Orleans' Flood Zones

  • Companies are organized in such a way as to kill good ideas, not let them bloom, but at the same time they flood their pipelines with mediocre drug candidates in order to look busy, long before the development of those experimental medicines should have stopped.

    FORBES: Is Big Pharma's Drug Research Finally Speeding Up?

  • Toby Flood and Carter landed a penalty apiece before the latter converted Gerrie Britz's try to put USAP 10-3 up.

    BBC: Perpignan 26-20 Leicester

  • Mr Cable told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that it was designed to "pre-empt a flood" of new arrivals in the period before permanent arrangements came into force.

    BBC: Cable defends temporary cap on non-EU migration

  • The SEC said Wednesday night the ban on short sales of financial company stocks will continue to just before midnight on Oct. 17, just about the time a flood of bank earnings reports are set to hit, and the news isn't expected to be pretty.

    FORBES

  • Flood warmed up with the rest of the squad before the game against South Africa at Welford Road last Friday.

    BBC: Flood on verge of Tigers return

  • It seems cynical to encourage people to travel, says Stefanie Rother, a spokeswoman at TUI, before adding that it would be terrible if an economic disaster followed the flood.

    ECONOMIST: Back to the beach?

  • One of the biggest issues that afternoon, when the Dow Jones industrial average briefly plummeted 573 points before recovering minutes later, was the disappearance of willing buyers amid a flood of selling.

    FORBES: SEC Takes Aim at Wild Market Swings

  • Of the 5.6 million people with flood insurance coverage, roughly 1 million get it for less than half the true price, because they live in houses built before flood hazard maps were created.

    FORBES: What Hurricane Sandy Teaches Us About Medicaid, Medicare

  • Flash floods hit the Lockyer valley area west of Brisbane on 10 January, before flood waters moved to Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city.

    BBC: Australia floods: Queensland launches inquiry

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