They announced their new album only a week before it went on sale to avoid the usual publicity created by critics.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

This is called an indirect method because the ink is put on the cut form before it goes on the paper.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

In that event,astronomers were able to observe the icy comet long before it struck the solar system's biggest planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

LCROSS will then study the soil thrown up to ten kilometers above the lunar surface before it too crashes into the moon.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

It can travel almost four hundred kilometers before it needs recharging, depending on how fast it is driven.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark.Then I'll go,too."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The mixture then goes through two more processes before it is shaped into a mold form.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

To save lives, a tsunami must be recognized as such before it can reach land.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

So Elvis was just as popular after his military service as he was before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

So "Luck" was the name they chose for him, adding before it,the first name "Tommy."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Tennessee said yes to women's basketball long before it was a popular thing to do.

VOA: special.2009.03.20