Although rare now, hand-crafted Bibles were common before the invention of the printing press.
This kind of channel stuffing is especially common before a new drug is launched.
Sustained periods of real 4% growth were common before the final link between the dollar and gold was severed in 1971.
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The giant order of those arches rising two stories high creates an effect of prim grandeur that allows the whole, seen alone against the sky behind, to command the common before it.
The one-to-one link between the peso and the dollar has restored some faith in recent years, removing the thousand-per-cent inflation common before the 1990s, but at the cost of exports which are priced out of their target markets.
And it shows that we can do big things when Republicans and Democrats put their common humanity before politics.
But when it comes to difficult choices about our budget and our priorities, we have found common ground before.
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Despite our disagreements, Republican leaders and I have found common ground before.
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He toured a technology class and chatted with older pupils in a common room before going on to the main hall to give his address.
The BBC understands that the council intends to speak to the town's foreshore officers to ask them to exercise common sense before applying the by-law.
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In the last half century, the domesticated honeybee population has declined by about 50 percent, with incidents common well before the introduction of neonics, which was hailed by environmentalists because of their comparatively modest environmental footprint.
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But Labour's white paper, outlining the devolution proposals, says that the British and Scottish governments will have to agree to a common position before they turn up in Brussels, which simply makes public the debate that has always taken place in private between the Scottish secretary and his cabinet colleagues.
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Centuries ago, Latin phrases embodied principles tackling the issue, which was carried forward to English common law, before there was America.
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Any losses must be recovered before common dividends are resumed.
He said pollution from old mines and wells was a common problem long before the recent gas drilling boom, which began about five years ago, adding that the situation is more complicated than many outsiders realize.
Experimentation in a small number of stores is common practice in retail before nationwide roll-outs.
It's likely to have been a pattern common to her life before becoming prime minister.
It is time for common sense to come before accounting purity and cut our losses.
Finally, there is more committee scrutiny by the MEPs before a common position is agreed on.
Crises are twice as common as they were before 1914, the authors conclude.
Why not insist on longitudinal data systems and the embrace of common standards and tests before anybody gets another Gates penny?
Although they were recorded by the rather crude method of placing a tape recorder in front of the television, as was common in the days before video recorders, the quality is surprisingly clear.
Personally, I just think that solar makes the most sense as an energy technology, and the tech innovations in solar power are such that I expect it to be the most common source of power before the century is out.
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They waste time tangling with Thor in a forest before recognizing their common aims.
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The Federal Trade Commission and Congress need to take a look at this new technology before it becomes common.
In fact, randomised trials and systematic reviews of evidence were introduced into the social sciences long before they became common in medicine.
Lane declined to allow his attorneys to present evidence on his behalf at the sentencing hearing before Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David L. Fuhry.
So it's not surprising that any two people in any one country probably won't need to go back many generations before finding a common ancestor.
Investors should keep in mind that the shares are not cumulative, meaning that in the event of a missed payment, the company does not have to pay the balance of missed dividends to preferred shareholders before resuming a common dividend.
The stock may be forming a cup-with-handle base, the most common pattern that winning stocks form before rallying higher.
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