Sentence examples for back before there from inspiring English sources

I barely had time to take a step back before there was a terrible crash.

"They would let you tape their shows, and, back before there were computers and the Internet, there was this huge underground community that swapped recordings.

Back before there was television — or radio, cellphones and the Internet — people must have devoted an enormous amount of concentration to studying one another's appearance, deducing from physiognomy the sort of meaning a seer reads into a tarot-card spread.

A gentlemen with a bullhorn is asking people to move back before there is a confrontation.

They tried to send him back before but the government over there wouldn't accept him into the country.

Only two non-European states with nuclear power stations, Japan and Mexico, have not at some point taken steps towards developing nuclear weapons, though most have pulled back before getting there.If proliferation is one reason for treating the spread of nuclear power with caution, renewable energy is another.

Back then, before there was so much international cricket being played, it meant so much for an overseas cricketer to play there, the home of the game.

It's part of a New Yorker tradition of what might be called "man in nature" writing, a tradition that stretches back to before there was such a thing as environmental consciousness, or at least before there was a term for it.

"If you think back to before there was a vaccine for German measles, it was pretty much the same situation: a viral infection led to in many instances—[birth defects like] neurological damage, or damage to eyes or damage to hearing," he told me.

They have to give it back to you to return to your base (The other team can't steal it back before you get there).

"Even further back before your time, there was Basil D'Oliveira, the first cricketer I can remember having people going on about his brawny forearms," says John Starbuck.