Qualifies something (inception or end of a thing, event, or date) as happening previously to another thing.
1 I believe I had that question last year or the year before .
2 However, as before mentioned, the result was at first almost exactly opposite.
3 As I said before , for example... Take Israeli foreign policy for example.
4 Last year, she took three days; the year before , it was seven.
5 The line I remember was 'Change before they change you.' Autonomy, right?
6 Of course; he'd probably never seen a city in this state before .
7 Those issues are likely to come before the court in future cases.
8 Of course, I'd known Amelia's problem before she'd said it out loud.
9 Yet last year, Scotland generated less renewable electricity than the year before .
10 Nuclear power produced nearly 30 percent of Japan's electricity before the crisis.
11 I'd seen almost exactly the same thing happen once before , years ago.
12 The case opened yesterday before Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill and continues today.
13 So the situation is a bit different from before the Lehman crisis.
14 A great deal, however, could happen to upset that plan before 2021.
15 Right before a key event, a key vote, or a key decision.
16 Discussing major changes to criminal law with the new act before parliament.
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