ahead of time
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The cow was always earmarked to be processed as beef, so Lee said the art collective was employing an extreme way to offer people a chance to change course ahead of time.
In the Minnesota cases, he said, “part of the problem for us is, why wasn’t this picked up ahead of time and what do we do to make sure this doesn’t continue in the future?”
One key advantage of this technology is that the cartilage scaffold can be manufactured ahead of time and used for many patients without tailoring it to each individual.
From Science Daily
"You have to make several guesstimates ahead of time - where to stand, where the car might emerge, which side they'll be on," Harrison says.
From BBC
“She loves as much spontaneity as possible, and she loves to not really know ahead of time what the actor’s going to do,” Woodall says.
From Los Angeles Times
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