The day before had been my twenty-fifth birthday, and no one had remembered, not even Ginnie, my own sister, my Irish twin, eleven months younger than I.
Twenty minutes before, Mellinger, who goes by Brad but is named Kevin, was running a reconnaissance mission on the banks of the Tigris River when he went down.
My mother had always been ahead of fashion trends, but in this instance she'd recognized the talent of Patricia Field twenty years before the rest of the world.
Mickey Rourke, whose career was long ago laid to rest, rises again to play Randy (the Ram) Robinson, a wrestler whose own career has tumbled from a high of twenty years before.
Then one day I received his telegram, which was like an opera libretto, just as theatrical, as dangerously childish and false, as everything he had said and written to others twenty years before .
Hunter-gatherers are traditionally believed to have lacked complex symbolic systems, social hierarchies, and the division of labor, three things you probably need before you can build a twenty-two-acre megalithic temple.
Following surgery and experimental chemotherapy, he lived twenty more years before dying, in 2002, at the age of sixty, from a lung cancer that was unrelated to his original disease.
Twenty-two years before becoming King in 1483, Richard was granted the dukedom of Gloucester.
Our seat was in front of the house, under the window behind whose shutters Mother had died twenty-five years before.
He was awake, and there was a giant rooster before him, no more than twenty yards away in the full glow of the raging fire.
Twenty-five years before, Britain -- which was made trustee under the Mandate in 1920 -- converted the eastern three-quarters of Palestine into the Emirate of Transjordan.
This is why restaurants give you a menu while you wait, and why doctors put you in the examination room twenty-five minutes before your examination actually begins.
Nearly twenty years would pass before I retold this story for the first time to my wife while playing 'Cathy's Clown' from a recently-purchased Everly Brothers greatest hits album.
With twenty minutes to go before the phone went on sale, they crammed into a small roped-off pen next to the glass cube that leads customers into the Apple Store beneath the plaza.
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He decided that before notifying Watson in the Farley, twenty-five miles away, he needed more information.
Do you think she could have provided better for herself at twenty years of age just before a gilded wedding carriage bore her toward her unthinkable future?
Staff members made sure that all patients who made a sick visit the day before got a follow-up call within twenty-four hours, that every test ordered was reviewed, that every unexpected problem was addressed.
Twenty second-half minutes had passed before the crowd witnessed a truly threatening attempt at goal.
After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.
Before moving to Bridgewater, in 2009, she spent twenty-five years on Wall Street, rising to a senior post at Morgan Stanley.
Well I managed to sit through the first twenty minutes of 'The Battle of Basra' before switching off.
This is a real bureaucratic danger: A marketing or sales presentation is written and rewritten twenty times, and then seventeen different people review and approve it before it is ever tested in front of an audience.
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The salesman said that the bike would run for twenty to thirty miles, depending on how fast I went, before I would need to plug its cord into the wall for eight hours or lug the batteries inside to charge.
Thirty days is just a tiny fraction of the two-year commitment you sign when buying discounted phones in the US -- one-twenty-fourth of the actual time you're stuck with the device before switching phones.
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When, after a period of mounting tensions, a U.S. sentry fired on Filipino soldiers outside Manila in February, 1899, the second war erupted, just days before the Senate ratified a treaty with Spain securing American sovereignty over the islands in exchange for twenty million dollars.
Twenty-one teams made a profit last season, compared to just 15 the year before.
Before embarking on this mission, I had the great fortune of working in high-tech for twenty two years.
After an extensive search, they chose a twenty-five-year-old lyricist who had never worked on a Broadway musical before.
So my last question for you all before I leave you is: Are you ready for this? (Applause.) Twenty days -- are you ready to do whatever it takes?
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