But several things happened before the vote.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In the North, people mourned. One man wrote: "The events of the last month or two have done more to build northern opposition to slavery than anything which has ever happened before, than all the anti-slavery pamphlets and books that have ever been written."

VOA: special.2009.07.02

"It is a significant find within Sierra Leone because it has never happened before in Sierra Leone."

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

This will happen in France like it happened before.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

"What's new is that we can actually do something to help the victims, and rather than what happened before was they may end up being prosecuted and criminalized themselves, that now it's recognized that they're victims."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

In fact,the question happened to arrive just a few days before the pop star died on June twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

"Definitely he will be right, that is going to be because before it happened it was right."

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Engineers say the closure of the Ignalina plant in the town of Visaginas happened on New Year's Eve shortly before midnight local time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01