• The time before, he was caught by the Greeks and detained for several weeks.

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  • Companies can differentiate themselves on sustainability performance, but the time before an issue becomes generic is short.

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  • And I am not just talking here about the time before there is a vacancy at Number Ten.

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  • Some 17% of workers have been denied vacation time, often because their coworkers requested the time before they did.

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  • Each time, I'm impressed when I notice some small way the experience is smoother and better than it was the time before.

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  • Prime Minister George Papandreou said over the weekend that Greece might be forced to ask for an extension to the time before it has to start repaying aid money.

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  • As yet, other bidders have not entered the fray, perhaps because they had wanted to use the time before Bank of Scotland made its formal offer to prepare their strategies.

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  • The second half was mostly a prelude to a postgame championship celebration, with Texas staying within the halftime deficit most of the time before a 9-0 run for a 61-39 lead.

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  • At the end of the two weeks, subjects from both groups were assessed again and all those who had done the HIT programme finished 10% faster than they had the time before.

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  • They found that when earthquakes struck in nearly the same place years or decades apart, seismic waves generated by the later quakes arrived in Alaska a little sooner than they had the time before.

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  • In a court appearance Thursday, Abassi told U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum that he understood that he will be spending the time before his next court appearance on June 11 preparing his case with his lawyers.

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  • Yet Treasury bonds are still significantly over-extended above the prices that prevailed most of the time before, during, and after the 2008 financial crisis, except for two previous brief spike-ups, in 2008, and 2010 (and those ended with substantial plunges back to normal).

    FORBES: Who Will Buy All Those Treasury Bonds When The Fed Stops?

  • University of Manchester academics studied the way the Beckhams spoke before and after their move to the US in 2007 and found Beckham dropped the "h" in words such as "him" and "has" 80% of the time before the move, but only 20% of the time afterwards.

    BBC: Quiz of the week's news

  • What he has also said is -- as recently as 40 minutes ago -- that if Congress won't act on the bigger deal or can't in the time before the sequester is scheduled to kick in, we need to take action, Congress needs to take action to make sure the sequester doesn't kick in.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "We never do things easy here at Swansea and it's never come in my time here or the time before, so we're looking for one of those days where it can all go right for us, " said Monk, who joined the club in 2004 and will make his 200th club appearance if he faces Doncaster on Sunday.

    BBC: Captain Garry Monk cannot explain Swansea slump in form

  • "I don't think there was any reason given the entire time before the kick-off eventually took place as to why there had been a hold-up, " he said.

    BBC: Olympics: Apology for N Korea in wrong flag row

  • De Villota, who was driving the MR01 for the first time before the crash, is one of only two female drivers contracted to an F1 team.

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  • We travelled to northern Iraq to meet the squad as they met up for the last time before a series of big tournaments in the Middle East.

    BBC: Iraqi team helping people unite

  • Mr Zetsche was the chief executive of Chrysler at the time, before taking over from Schrempp at the helm of DaimlerChrysler, only to oversee the break-up of the company.

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  • Turnbull acknowledges that he has little hope of getting the Olympic qualifying time before the Cork City Sports on 3 July - which is the deadline imposed by the Olympic Council of Ireland.

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  • Then, the minute the bus had turned the corner, she would call my office and satisfy herself that I had been seen off by my secretary at the usual time the night before.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • Tickets from the U.S. to Paris this summer priced in January were 22% higher than the same time the year before, according to Kayak, which searches airlines and online travel agencies for the best prices.

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  • That pitch bought the Kings time, before the brokered deal between the city and the Maloofs fell apart last year.

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  • Sallie Mae declared a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share for the first time since before the credit crisis, payable June 17, 2011.

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  • "What he is so good at is making the right gesture at the right time, before the right audience, " says a senior executive of a rival Hong Kong company.

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  • United grabbed the advantage for the third time just before the hour mark when Nani rounded off a flowing move only for Eden Hazard's 90th minute penalty to send the game into extra-time.

    CNN: Chelsea lodge Clattenburg complaint

  • But Tory frontbencher Baroness Neville-Jones said only that the opposition "still believe" in its alternative proposals, indicating that there could be room for compromise in the little time remaining before the general election.

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  • It officially ended on Sunday as the Paralympics closing ceremony extinguished the flame in the Olympic Stadium for the final time, before the Paralympic flag was handed to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian city which will host both Games in 2016.

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  • The willingness to take a chance on blemished credits pushed below-investment grade securities above par value for the first time since before the financial crisis, up from a nadir of 55 cents on the dollar in December of 2008, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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  • "We are in extra-time, " said Blatter, referring to the time left before the election.

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