It is always a good idea to keep a lot of necessary supplies in the home even before winter begins.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

They say we should drink water even before we start to feel like we need something to drink.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

So even before the presidential election, southerners began discussing what they would do if Abraham Lincoln won.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

But Mediterranean members of the European Union rejected that proposal even before the ten-day meeting began.

VOA: special.2010.12.14

It was started in seventeen seventy-three -- even before our country became the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Some Republican senators began criticizing it even before Wilson's ship reached the port of Boston.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

It had been there even before Everett was born.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

"As long as I can remember, it was animals,animals. Even before I could talk, I was watching earthworms and things, reading Doctor Doolittle books, wanting to learn the language of animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

He says to recognize the signs of human trafficking even before the victims themselves, border patrol agents are receiving specialized training.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Even before this oil leak, BP's safety policies were in doubt following major accidents in Alaska and Texas in the past decade.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Even before the violence, hotels in Bangkok reported that 20 percent of their reservations were being canceled by travelers concerned by the protests.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Even before the American Revolution of the late 1700s, Cape May merchants advertised in Philadelphia newspapers, inviting people to resort in Cape May.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

Even before the games began, snow had to be trucked in to make the snowboarding and freestyle skiing venue ready for their competitions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Yet they abandoned those they were responsible for, they were supposed to protect, and abandoned them even before any shot was fired at them."

VOA: standard.2009.04.08