"How about before, when you were single and younger?"

VOA: special.2010.02.08

NASA warned the three astronauts inside about one hour before the object was to reach the area of the station.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center says the city's population is about seventy-seven percent of what it was before Katrina.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

He worried about his motorcycle. If the engine failed, he could die of lack of water before anyone could find him.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

The Cassatt family lived in Paris, France for about two years before moving to Heidelberg in modern day Germany.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

But there were questions about why new restrictions on companies had excluded contracts dated before February eleventh,including those at A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than 2 weeks before he takes office.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

Before the speech, a student at the school asked for advice about how to get the president's job.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

For example, a student says "preclude" instead of "precede" when talking about one event coming before another.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Homestake operated as a gold mine for one hundred twenty-five years before closing about nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.

VOA: special.2011.01.20

Sometimes she thinks too much about having something in the future before she really has it.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Another man in Seattle,Washington writes about his familys terrible experience fleeing first from China, then from Cambodia and Vietnam before arriving in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.03