His historic performance took place ten years before black singer Marian Anderson performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Spreading mulch before the ground has frozen may attract small animals searching for a warm place to spend the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The rockets, normally released before returning to Earth, could help keep a loose heat shield in place.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

A huge crowd waited before the place where Lincoln and the other important visitors would sit.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Several major events took place in Boston before and during the American Revolution.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Before this could happen, something very unexpected took place.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

But it was years before large studies took place.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Everybody's working on new projects. And Comic-Con is the place you can see those projects before anybody else."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

the retention bonuses were put in place at the beginning of 2008, before AIG received any bail-out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The Palestinians say there must be some progress on the settlement issue before any meeting takes place.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The reality is all the stadiums are done." "Then you said,no, they are going to run out of money before everything is in place.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

The talks taking place this week in Barcelona will be the last before a major U.N.summit in December where delegates will hash out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Although many Democrats and some Republicans favor shutting down the detention center, which they argue has come to exemplify the extreme antiterrorism tactics that have hurt the U.S.image abroad, they oppose funding the closure before a plan is in place on what to do with the 240 detainees being held there.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20