before the coming
Example Sentences
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And Abbott directed the state to begin a review of security at all Texas schools before the coming academic year.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
Even before the coming of the Dust Bowl, however, there was trouble on the frontier.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2021
University administrators began working with Curry’s representatives to figure out what it would take to sponsor a team and whether it was possible to get things in place before the coming fall semester.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2019
Horses also competed seriously with buffalo for grass and water and enabled a huge market for buffalo hides, badly diminishing the wild herds long before the coming of the transcontinental railroad and professional white hunters.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Recalling the delay they had suffered a year ago, this time they had arrived early and would be leaving before the coming two-day event prevented their departure.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
