Sentence examples for Some years prior from inspiring English sources

Some years prior, Dzula had happened to hear Gene Deitch interviewed on the WYNC show "Spinning on Air," hosted by David Garland, and Deitch had slipped in a mention of Converse and played one of his old home recordings of her.

Some years prior to that, Mello had written her Master's dissertation under my supervision.

She met Cooper in London and they have been together 20 years, although she says they must have "brushed elbows" some years prior to meeting properly.

For some years prior to 1942, a Mr. Roberts, residing in New Castle, Delaware, had been trying to sell his death ray to the United States government.

The Steig ragamuffins, by the way, provided useful antimatter to Peter Arno's svelte couples in evening clothes and Helen Hokinson's ladies'-club dowagers, which had established their place in the magazine some years prior.

He was in the peaceful occupancy of the premises for some years prior to any assertion of title upon the part of the defendant under the deed of 1872.

Some 125 years prior, in 1888, British historian James Bryce said, "sunlight kills many of those noxious germs which are hatched where politicians congregate".

The aliens probably didn't owe their advantages to dramatically superior genes, but to a development some 40,000 years prior to their arrival in Europe.

Imagine an economy that is confronted by a wave of new entrants to the labour market (as the consequence, perhaps, of a baby boom some 20 years prior).

Williams' The Science of Hitting was published in 1971, but he was practicing its principles some 30 years prior to that and remains the last player to have hit.400 or better.

Patriotism (love of country) and nationalism (loyalty to one's nation) are often taken to be synonymous, yet patriotism has its origins some 2,000 years prior to the rise of nationalism in the 19th century.