Sentence examples for been lost before from inspiring English sources

In truth, the battle has been lost before it has even begun.

Detectives were interviewing both women yesterday, the police said, and were investigating whether the ID might have been lost before the burglary.

But there's one battle that's been lost before a single arrow has been nocked: the battle for HFR, or high frame rate.

They waited three years until several lives had been lost before acting reluctantly on the intelligence advises," an intelligence source told the Nation.

It's always easy to say in hindsight but with the all-rounder-heavy squad they sent, as in India a year earlier, this series might have been lost before a ball was bowled.

I'd been lost before Bloss; I'd been stumbling along the path with half of me missing; and then I met her, this strange familiar; her face, part mirror, part my own, smiling back at me.

Starving yourself will cause you to gain more weight, as muscle is lost before fat.

"We were right back to the way we were playing when we were losing before," Brian Leetch said.

This does not mean Iraq has been lost, as Vietnam was lost before it.

Half the season was lost before an agreement was reached and the games resumed.

In most cases the money was lost before the business even got off the ground.