It was not long before the new military organisation was exposed to the stern test of war. |
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How long before someone charismatic, competent, and efficient takes charge of one of these wacko organizations? |
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Generally there is no point with diesels as the power dies long before 4,000 rpm is on the clock. |
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Though, I didn't think about that long before Sam barged in to my room, carrying a plastic water gun in hand. |
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He is convinced Esso won't have to wait long before potential recruits are queuing up for an interview. |
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She knew it would not be long before the baby was on its way but the weather had dramatically changed. |
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It also reveals that a number of early skills reliably predict reading acquisition long before school entry. |
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It wasn't long before we hit the port, and after a relaxing ride, it was action stations again. |
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I was of the view that jointing mortar installed in this manner would not last long before it broke up and came out of the joints. |
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She was into juicing long before it was cool and trendy and has worn out several electric juicers. |
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Eliza was an adulteress long before Gabriel had his affair with your mother. |
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Every act earned a rapturous round of applause from the audience and it wasn't long before people were out of their seats and on the dance floor. |
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How long before the gates are removed and it becomes a rat run from London Road? |
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Transport too provided for personal travel long before the coming of modern systems. |
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The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates. |
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However, interest in how cultivated plants consort with wildlings had started long before genetic engineering was even a glimmer in a test tube. |
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It didn't take long before the light drew the bugs, a half-dozen butting against the ceiling and lamps and more bouncing off windowpanes. |
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It did not take long before the airlift became a multinational and joint logistics marvel. |
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It wasn't long before Devon and I were curled up in our sleeping bags and dad and mom on their air mattress. |
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It was not long before F-BEEG was plying the world's airways on a variety of mapping assignments. |
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I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen. |
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The bones had started to knit long before she'd been brought into the hospital. |
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If I'd knocked over a liquor store that day instead of accepting John's offer, I'd have been out of prison and off parole long before now. |
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Siberian woolly mammoths made their way over the Bering land bridge to the New World long before mercantile ships made the journey. |
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He was doing Pilates and working out with oversized exercise balls long before either became trendy. |
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The trade group made re-electing the president its top priority in June 2003, long before the campaign season began. |
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They were sought after by Europe's royal houses long before many of today's classics were known. |
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When learning to read, many preschool age children recognize letters in alphabets long before they are able to read. |
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It wasn't long before Lee landed his first pike weighing in at 9lb 11 oz and was also chuffed with himself. |
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I often figured out codes long before the characters did, which was annoying. |
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Your love life is sure to have a renaissance long before you reach middle age. |
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For that matter, it won't be long before customers like Young will be able to reorder supplies through their wireless Palms. |
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That zeal is infectious and I finished the book long before we landed at Heathrow despite my struggling eyelids. |
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It doesn't take long before he's in trouble with the law but the police are prepared to do a deal with him. |
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The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi called for an eye for an eye long before the Israelite law did. |
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Might this Bote be the shadowy messenger who came to Mozart's door, not long before the composer's death, to request a requiem mass? |
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There were a couple of howlers, including a reference to the zip fastener long before its invention. |
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She makes the personal into art long before feminists came to call it political. |
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John was the first DJ to give exposure to punk, reggae and hip-hop, long before they crossed over into the mainstream. |
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Reworked, rescripted and recast during the shoot, the film became legendary long before its release. |
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But after a quick sleep it didn't take long before a speedboat came to my rescue. |
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Both Effigia and the ostrich dinosaurs would have evolved from a common ancestor that lived long before, the study says. |
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People had been doing layout and typography long before the Web came along. |
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The notion of local residency was forged long before globalisation changed the living conditions of the world. |
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Short-term methods of storage are unsatisfactory because containers leak and break open long before the wastes are safe. |
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The severe summer drought got to the lemon verbena long before my silver maples started shedding leaves in stress. |
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But it did not take long before illegally-distilled liquor, adorned with faked revenue stamps, was flooding the market. |
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A cat has to catch and kill only one rabies infected mouse and it too will be dead and buried long before it lives out its nine lives. |
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It was a place of ritual burial from c. 2000 BC, long before the arrival of the Celts in Ireland. |
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Assyrians were in the region long before the British, the Ottomans, the Arabs, and the Kurds. |
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He knew it wouldn't be long before she was wrapped around his little finger. |
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It may not be very long before we will be able to watch anything via live webcast, though likely for a price. |
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The question has been a live one long before it entered the deep entrails of the European Union's legislative process. |
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She diagnosed her husband John's supraventricular tachycardia, or heart arrhythmia, long before he saw a hospital consultant. |
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When the General Baptist Churches in England became Arian in the eighteenth century it was not long before they began to die. |
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Not long before, the fallen woman had been held up as the villain of the age, not its victim. |
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If houses were built right next to the youth club, how long before the new owners object to the noise and disruption? |
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Nor are you likely to be waiting here long before somebody recognises your need for a cold drink or a coffee. |
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Bob sleighing was popular in and around La Plagne long before the Olympic course was built. |
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There is no doubt that the Allies knew about the death camps long before the Russians liberated Majdanek. |
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Some of these books were on the shelves long before I started to use the library nine years ago. |
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Doctors Hilary and Alan Hill fell in love with Argyll long before moving there. |
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I'd go with my pals and play football or go cycling, even though this was long before mountain bikes came along. |
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It will not be long before you can buy network television programming without ads for a monthly fee. |
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I have written about alcoholism, drugs and artificial insemination and euthanasia long before they gained focus as sociological issues. |
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If the horse is a conclusive sign of Aryan presence, then it is in India long before the Harappan Civilization in Neolithic sites. |
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He kept them there just a second too long before dropping them to his sides with a lopsided grin. |
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It did not take long before the Crusaders were running short on supplies and on patience. |
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This camp was lousy with lice and fleas, and it wasn't long before I was as lousy as the rest of the boys there. |
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It wasn't long before their working relationship had developed into a love affair. |
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Another, even louder rumble made him move faster so it wasn't long before he came upon a cluster of small, low buildings. |
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Victory was assured long before the final results came in as poll after poll showed him leading with a substantial margin. |
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Armies would thus come under fire long before they could even see their enemy, let alone attack his positions. |
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We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out. |
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We got home bearing made-up sandwiches for lunch and it wasn't long before I was putting my head down on my pillow for a well-earned doze. |
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The reason for this is that taro was grown long before tannia was brought over from the New World. |
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They were fresh and flourishing, full of sap and vigor, though many of them had been born long before him. |
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Sherrie continued to babble on and it didn't take too long before Al realised too that he had been had. |
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It can't be long before we get such an establishment in Balmain, probably selling baby carriages as well. |
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Is Barbie responsible for so many girls' obsession with the perfect white wedding, long before the man in question comes on the scene? |
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How long before politicians come out with their own clothes line and perfume scent? |
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It is not long before the tenor clef is needed to avoid the use of ledger lines. |
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Once upon a time, long before I answered God's call to be a designer of books, I spent a year as a scooper of ice cream. |
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You say that your Japanese period came long after you visited Japan but your Balinese period came long before you ever visited Bali. |
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It wasn't long before I was having a tussle with a pike, which gave me a great scrap. |
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Case head expansion and dropped primers occurred long before ballistics got interesting. |
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It was not long before Hispanic ballplayers earned their well-deserved place in the cradle of American baseball. |
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Yes, this is pike heaven all right and it won't be long before one day somebody banks that magical sixty-pound fish. |
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Highly developed cultures, including those of the Olmecs, Mayas, Toltecs, and Aztecs existed long before the Spanish conquest. |
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It won't be long before the United States fails to medal in Olympic basketball. |
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Spiders were diving under water in air-filled diving bells long before man invented the submarine or the bathysphere. |
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Music was a vital part of human culture long before anyone was able to mass reproduce and sell recordings of it. |
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It wasn't long before I began to predict the frogs' underwater routes by watching the wakes left by the powerful thrusts of their hind legs. |
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He has always written songs with a message and can claim to have been preaching the green gospel long before the Green Party came into existence. |
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It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom. |
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However, I plan to retire long before then with a tidy income from company and private pensions, ISAs, property and so on. |
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If your eyelids flickered, he'd sit up waiting for some indication that it wouldn't be long before the first long stroll of the day. |
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How long before we accept bear-baiting and cock-fighting because it's accepted by certain cultures? |
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He would start the tilt hammers long before day break and these were said to serve as an alarm clock for the early-rising townspeople. |
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The two men get to drinking, and then to talking, and it's not long before they've become fast friends. |
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Many experiments suggest that ancient subduction-related metasomatism affected OIB mantle sources long before island magmatism. |
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We didn't have to wait too long before we got in and I must say that Santa was very good. |
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The sizes of the pages were inconsistent and some had clearly been damaged or written on long before being bound into the book. |
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It's not long before we hear the bellbirds that inhabit this end of the gardens. |
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I flaked out long before that, and announced my need to go back for a top-up nap. |
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How long before the town council tries to change the boundaries again to gain more council tax? |
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Given the organisers' track record it may not be so long before their wish is granted. |
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These songs, like a lot of music, grow on you for better or worse and it won't be long before you have strong feelings for this band. |
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Everyone knows that murder and manslaughter, kidnapping and terrorism, treason and high treason existed long before today's penal codes. |
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I did not have to wait long before I hooked into my first fish that turned out to be a mirror carp of about 7.5 lb. |
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Such acts are committed by racists and bigots who were racist and bigoted long before July 7th. |
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Indian sportswriters covering the game found the city thick with rumors long before the first ball was bowled. |
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Traditionally happy to bowl along in front Edredon lost the lead long before the leading pack made the sweeping turn for home. |
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This place is losing money and you can only go on doing that for so long before you have to shut up shop. |
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It wasn't too long before they started up again, with a different kind of balance. |
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It's called jazzing, a dance of mixed race, so-called Cape Coloreds say they created long before some of these young aficionados were born. |
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How long before we see him, suited and booted, addressing the Tory conference on the dangers of low-interest rates? |
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What about a mole being a double agent who establishes a cover long before beginning espionage? |
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Though formally established only in 1911-the Black Hand cast its shadow long before. |
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The remaining 15 were used by 9 p.m. that evening long before the blackout ended. |
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Always eccentric, Dietrich put on trousers, tuxedos and men's suits long before other women dared. |
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Make up small quantities of your blends so they don't have to stand for too long before being used. |
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I doubt so, the pages would have been eaten by moths and silverfish long before the work became public domain. |
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Aboriginal community leader Lyle Munro said anger in the community had been simmering long before Thomas Hickey's death. |
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Whatever their mother tongue, babies acquire it long before they learn to read and write. |
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School wasn't very far away, and it wasn't long before he parked the car in his usual spot, under the big umbrella tree. |
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It was not long before he found service as a mozo in the family of a wealthy Spaniard, by whom he was taught to read and write. |
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It wasn't long before one of his blue-eyed boys got impatient with the company despite its aggressive marketing focus. |
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Skiers blame boarders, but boarders point out that fatal accidents happened long before boarding became the rage. |
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I knew that the bobwhite hustling toward a nearby thicket was going to be lunch long before I touched the trigger. |
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When the stem finally separates completely, which is called full slip, the melon is very ripe and won't last long before turning soft and mushy. |
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It'll not be long before I need to hang a slip-on coat by the kitchen door ready for those pop-out jobs. |
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Most every time you ride another racer's slipstream, you'll easily overtake their position long before the meter fills. |
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Charles I was beheaded by Parliament on January 30, 1649, but he was unkinged by his own actions long before that. |
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Robert Crumb he isn't, but that's too bad because watching this obnoxious bore becomes tedious long before the film's 77 minutes run out. |
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As the teams lined up for the second-half, BJFF had a mean hungry look about them and it wasn't long before they went nap. |
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He can even remember watching Petta play with the same flamboyance at Ipswich long before the player moved north as a Bosman signing. |
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Although the initial stay was only six months, after returning to France it wasn't long before they were bound for Bulgaria once again. |
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There are only two left and it's unlikely that it will take long before they are snapped up also. |
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She was a left-wing Labour parliamentary candidate long before her husband-to-be got a sniff of elected office. |
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I can do this for only so long before I have to examine the microlevel problem of being unwell. |
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Doctors took specialized training in obstetrics and gynecology long before they did in urology. |
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I reckon you can make it across the desert and back long before nightfall, if speed is your aim. |
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Keith used to get up quite early, long before Jan, and have a couple of cups of tea with a nip of rum in them. |
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In the States years ago and long before anyone ever heard of adjustable cables, a small version of the vaulting horse was called the buck. |
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It wasn't long before the children were spotting deer tracks, gopher burrows, butterflies, hornets' nests and budding flowers. |
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We have heard the speed merchants using this road for a few weeks, so how long before one of them kills an innocent child? |
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It is the language of the video nasty that Gibson uses here, and the point about the brutality is made long before the punishment ends. |
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Earlier, Hemingway tells us all about bullfighting long before we ever see a bull. |
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Sadly, this spark of vitality leaves the movie long before the curtain falls. |
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After Christmas and long before spring, Burns Night provides an excellent excuse for anyone to party. |
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Worn chains and sprockets may be working improperly long before they actually break. |
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You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down. |
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It wasn't long before the three of us were sitting in the hotel bar having a very stiff drink. |
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It wasn't long before an even greater calamity than sea sickness set upon them. |
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She accepted, but it was not long before the call of the great outdoors became irresistible once more. |
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It is not long before the goons are overrunning the guards and engaging with them in hand-to-hand combat. |
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It wasn't long before the Cougars were over, Colin Pickles brilliantly stealing the ball in a one-on-one tackle and racing in at the corner. |
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The British had recognized Odia as an original language and created Odisha as a separate state in 1936, long before Independence. |
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Ancestral forms of play and laughter existed in other animals long before humans began cracking up. |
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It happened that it was the first convent in Tubbercurry long before the Marist Convent was put into operation. |
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Although this was the first ever online virus description database, offline versions had existed long before. |
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Her offstage screech sends shivers down the spine long before she actually appears, and when she appears she devastates. |
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But long, long before the Voyageurs came the forests were home to the Sioux and the Ojibwa. |
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Yes, long before Romeo Beckham was starring in ads for Burberry, we Sykes children were flogging schmutter for our parents. |
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The constant intrusion of spooky music telling us that we should be really frightened achieves overkill long before the end of the film's running time. |
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A cafe owner vouches for them and they are freed, but it isn't long before they come face to face with the bloodthirsty robber and his hatchet man! |
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He was a master sailor and navigator and had sailed with his wife across the Channel and along to Brittany in thick fog long before the days of satellite navigation. |
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With his flowing mane and soul patch, his requisite unorthodox childhood and his uncanny feel for the ice, he seemed destined for stardom long before Salt Lake City. |
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Mr Lang, a retired veterinary surgeon, says he can still remember the thrill of seeing the lady's slipper in Yorkshire, long before it had to be heavily guarded. |
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It wasn't long before the machine started to wind down and stop. |
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Pundits often tut-tut about how presidential campaigns start too early, long before most Americans care. |
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Ten years ago, long before he won his first cap for Scotland or the Lions, Tom Smith turned up unannounced and unheralded at London Scottish's leafy ground in Richmond. |
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But according to sniffy British sources, the arrests were the result of a long-standing intelligence operation that began long before the American alerts. |
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And given the legacy, long before then, of bonuses worthy of Croesus in a world of quotidian pay raises for the 99 percent? |
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Truth be told, the Duke was, for lack of a better word, a blabbermouth, and it was not long before the whole group of aristocrats before the fire knew the true story. |
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Although the tenor blew out his lovely lyric voice years ago, long before his bout with and recovery from leukemia, that doesn't seem to bother his fans. |
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Not long before Monsoon Wedding was released, the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a White Paper, or statement of policy, on immigration and citizenship. |
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But when the man himself appeared in his neat pinstripe suit it wasn't long before believers were being won over by his accuracy and down-to-earth Liverpudlian ways. |
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The photographers were on the beachhead long before the Marines. |
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I was just about coming to my senses, not long before lunch, when the doorbell rang and there stood Graham's parents, again, unwarned and unannounced. |
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Now, bourbon and rock and roll had gone hand in hand long before leather pants and hairspray hit the scene. |
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Ronnie Scott, fake Morrissey, tells me that he once crossed paths with real Morrissey, long before joining the band. |
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Of course, celebrities were appropriating Native American culture long before Harry Styles bought his first bottle of hair gel. |
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West Dawsonites with ploughs and light loaders do the rest, and traffic is usually constant long before the official bridge is ploughed and established. |
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The Beatles, who played in clubs long before they released their first single, knew that songs with a climax, a point, a socko finish, were guaranteed audience-goosers. |
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Carter reveals that Jay made weird, borderline mentorly calls to Kimmel long before the Conan contretemps began. |
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Crashes can often be predicted long before the eventual smash. |
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Growing up in suburban Philadelphia, I was a disciple of Joe Paterno long before I became a Penn State student. |
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I doubt that my own ecstasy use was a factor in my depression, since I can remember being seriously depressed long before I ever saw a tab of ecstasy. |
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Musicians were colorblind in this country long before anyone else, and no one was ever more colorblind than Helm. |
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With the atmosphere successfully in place you'll find yourself uncomfortably wriggling in your seat long before the ravens start to appear in the attic. |
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So, unrepaired and unfrequented, town centers began to look dilapidated, long before any unwelcome barbarian tongues were heard in their near empty streets. |
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It's been around since long before Basil Fawlty was reduced to fits of apoplectic rage by the uncomprehending antics of his dim-witted Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers. |
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A common Christendom under the Pope, and the universal language of Latin, provided a form of European community long before that of the 20th century. |
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Nevermind that newspapers got in on the act of turning unsubstantiated gossip into an art form, long before TV, radio and the Internet were around. |
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Writing about classes and races that didn't always get a fair shake in the literature of his time, he was a multiculturalist long before the term became popular. |
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Our ancestors may have spun string long before our earliest record of it. |
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I'm sure it won't be long before someone decides they really should get that old lotto ticket in their wallet checked out, and finds themselves a little bit richer. |
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Lake Success, a township on Long Island, was home to the United Nations long before it moved to its iconic eastside headquarters. |
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He knew he wouldn't survive long before he crawled back to his cassette collection, central heating, and ready-to-eat pasta shells in spicy tomato sauce. |
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It wasn't long before Keenan had spotted a cab and waved it down. |
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It isn't going to be long before every electronic device that we own is going to automatically connect to global communications networks as a matter of course. |
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As Hollywood learned long before many of us were born, when you dish up bread and water because it's quick and easy, a starved population will eat. |
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But it wasn't long before headlights cut through the downpour from behind her, reflecting off her yellow slicker and illuminating the drenched roadside heath. |
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His exuberance and unflagging talents were duly noted by West Indies selectors and it wasn't long before he became a member of the West Indies under-19 team. |
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Most importantly, they were all deleted long before that percentage could rise any higher. |
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The full moon still changed them though, and it wasn't long before the humans had chased even the human-looking shape-shifters out of their towns. |
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Not so long before, executions had been popular entertainment and trips to a madhouse were like going to the circus. |
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Now, it seems to me that anyone in the USA writing as late as October, ought to be well aware that Amelia Earhart had been given up for lost long before. |
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Densely populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived. |
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Because, even as a kid, I was fascinated by the way people expressed themselves, it wasn't long before I came across a London derivative of London back-slang. |
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It doesn't take long before people catch on to a good thing. |
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Raphael Lemkin was, by all accounts, obsessed with genocide long before he invented a name for it. |
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In situations where temperature could pose a threat, fusible plugs are designed to melt and release the gas long before critical pressure levels are reached. |
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Surely this difficulty should have been foreseen and the Minister should have negotiated the further funding long before the supply of cash had run out. |
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Do you go steady with the brush for very long before you give it a wring? |
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It didn't take long before the spilt food attracted mice, and the mice attracted badgers, and the badgers attracted crazy porcupine things that we call Critters. |
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Courtney Love, on the other hand, emancipated herself at age 16, long before she gained fame as a rock star and actress. |
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In his surprise at the assault he began by getting the worst of it, but it was not long before both his attackers were on the ground nursing bloodied noses. |
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It won't be long before they are walking down the aisle together. |
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But the development of seaside resorts had begun long before. |
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However it wasn't long before the church could no longer cope with the volume of people seeking a place for food, shelter and chat and so new premises were sought. |
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The decision to certify the planes and their sensors has been pending since late last year, long before the Ukraine crisis began. |
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The worst school killing in history was a car bomb in 1928, long before the mass media. |
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Manchester knew that you were a World War II buff, and that you were deeply interested in Churchill long before you met him. |
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In fact, turnaround experts will tell you that the brain drain typically begins long before the Chapter 11 filing. |
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We may have been drinking it for the last 350 years but Camellia sinensis, to call the tea plant by its proper name, became a staple in Asia long before. |
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If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head. |
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It wasn't long before the Lebanese caught on to the sarcasm. |
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A lot of the time, they do animatics and edit them before they even shoot the real material, so they're in editing long before they're done shooting. |
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The system of exemptions told draftees that their society did not value them, long before this was made patent on their return home when they were spat upon by the exempt. |
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If you start wiring your computer equipment up to your video equipment its not long before everything disappears under a mountain of leads and power cables. |
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The missing leg is only the most obvious sign that Strike is damaged goods, a loner wounded by life long before he went overseas. |
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Not long before my mother died, my sister found her wandering on a rainy day, shoeless and senile in the middle of millionaire ghetto Hampstead, where she lived. |
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It wasn't long before brother and sister were sworn enemies. |
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He could sink that harpoon 3 feet into a whale and once fast it was not long before he was on the whale's back driving the lance 6 feet into its vitals. |
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The phrase originates from the days of early bare-knuckle boxing or prizefighting bouts, a time long before any rules were produced by the Marquess of Queensberry. |
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The sound of a car revving up and suddenly moving reached my ears, and it was not long before a black car came to my side with a stampede of crazed animals following. |
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I fancy that it had been there long before the avenue was constructed, for the grey tiles were stained with lichens, and the walls were mildewed and discoloured with age. |
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How long before the tide turns and takes half of it back out again? |
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You can only oppress a community for so long before they will fight with toothpicks against machine guns. |
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Fireworks and black ash were used to celebrate important events long before the American Revolutionary War. |
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It wasn't long before I learned that I was expected to pass the eleven-plus examination with three or four others in the class. |
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Charisma has been replaced by charmlessness and it cannot be too long before Real decide to end the pantomime and start again. |
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The composers of the late baroque had established their feats of composition long before the works of Johann Fux. |
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And convinced that Satanists are operating nearby, it's not long before she's called in to perform her first exorcism. |
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The moments of respite were few and far between and it wasn't long before the place erupted into electro-pop blitzkrieg once again. |
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It wasn't long before influential progressive rock stations in the US were endorsing their quality. |
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It suggests that oxygenic photosynthesis, the ultimate source of most oxygen, evolved long before the Great Oxidation Event. |
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But after being handed the 900-page doorstopper it wasn't long before she handed it back admitting defeat after a few pages. |
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The school gates might have just reopened for the new term, but it won't be long before they close again for the October half-term. |
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Scavengers and weather remove Brucella bacteria long before any cattle are released on these lands. |
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Neanderthals inhabited that continent long before the arrival of modern humans. |
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I met her long before she had become the oracle of pop culture. |
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He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. |
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It wasn't long before Jokic was dropping dimes, blocking shots, leading the break, and running the offense out of the elbow for Denver. |
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We got out to sea again, but it was not long before the Eyeties were on our track again. |
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I expected to be in the States long before this, but things fell out otherwise. |
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However, harsh working conditions were prevalent long before the Industrial Revolution took place. |
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The slums remained for several more years, with trams being electrified long before many houses. |
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However, it was not long before Henry wished to annul the marriage so he could marry another. |
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By this point it was clear that Gloster's first airframe would be ready long before Rover could deliver an engine. |
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Betsy eats up the attention like a bobbysoxer at an Elvis concert. It won't be long before Luca will have them kissing his ring. |
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My deal with Laddies had been signed long before betting opened on the Masterclassics. |
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Some of this uplift was along old lines of weakness left from the Caledonian and Variscan Orogenies long before. |
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His initial experiments in that field were done with pen and paper, long before personal computers existed. |
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Raids in Europe, including raids and settlements from Scandinavia, were not unprecedented and had occurred long before the Vikings arrived. |
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I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book. |
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Despite his fame and eloquence, it was not long before Fisher came into conflict with the new king, his former pupil. |
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It was not long before historians began to refer to the milestone at which an event occurred. |
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Indirect evidence suggests that horses were ridden long before they were driven. |
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Aged 42 and Warrant Officer Class 2, she became eligible not long before her appointment. |
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It was not long before Northampton had one of the major rugby union teams in the country. |
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Angelo has high HP, but middlesome defences, so it won't be too long before he gets his just desserts. |
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Once this massive credit crunch hit, it didn't take long before we were in a recession. |
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But BP and the EPA clearly knew about the toxicity of the Corexit long before this spill. |
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These were developed long before biomedicine and use of scientific methods. |
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He has used hearing aids since 1979, but realised he was going deaf long before that. |
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The Netherlands successfully addressed the issue of public finances and stagnating job growth long before its European partners. |
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Mommsen's thesis was published long before the first traces of IX Hispana were found at Nijmegen. |
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Although Margaret and Angus were temporarily reconciled, it was not long before their relationship entered a phase of terminal decline. |
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Ermine had been used in Brittany long before, and there is no clue about its origin. |
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The subject matter and the characters described events that happened long before medieval times. |
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In addition, some designs such as Joanna were released to fine printing use long before they became widely available from Monotype. |
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Folk dances sometimes evolved long before current political boundaries, so that certain dances are shared by several countries. |
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Sweden and Gothia were two separate nations long before that into antiquity. |
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It appears to date from long before the invention of the telescope in the 17th century. |
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Not long before Tulla went to work on widening and straightening the river heavy floods had brought significant loss of life. |
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On the afternoon of 31 May, Beatty encountered Hipper's battlecruiser force long before the Germans had expected. |
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Discovery of these fossils suggest that fungi developed symbiotic partnerships with photoautotrophs long before the evolution of vascular plants. |
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Controversy surrounded the Whydah long before Clifford brought up the first artifacts. |
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In fact, I bet it won't be long before the Vatican relocates here, relieved and happy to finally find a haven for its priestly pedophocracy. |
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Ralph Allen promoted its use in the early 18th century, as did Hans Price in the 19th century, but it was used long before then. |
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The region was a trading centre for aboriginal peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. |
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The Dutch had settled in America long before the establishment of the United States of America. |
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In 1448, not long before the Byzantine Empire collapsed, the Russian Church gained independence from the Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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African slavery had existed long before Europeans discovered it as an exploitable means of creating an inexpensive labour force for the colonies. |
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A number of scholars found important flaws with mercantilism long before Adam Smith developed an ideology that could fully replace it. |
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The Mongols had employed foreigners long before the reign of Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty. |
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