Sentence examples for before at the world from inspiring English sources

The year before, at the World's Strongest Man, they had to drag a twenty-two-thousand-pound Titan truck more than eighty feet down a road.

Lysacek, 23, had won bronze two times before at the world championships.

Hoy has been caught out in this way before – at the world championship in Copenhagen in 2010 – and there were hints of that as Mitchell gained about a quarter of a lap, and it was not until the finish straight that Hoy overhauled him.

A year before at the World Championships in Daegu, he had started his kick a fraction too early in the 10,000m, opened up a lead and then been overhauled, agonisingly, in the final few strides, winning silver.

Miley has beaten her once before, at the 2009 world championships, but last year's battle was more illuminating.

The England captain has also defended his decision not to sing the national anthem before matches at the World Cup.

Burns, 26, was a bricklayer and playing for Cross Keys a year before playing at the World Cup.

The work is Mr. Wuorinen's two-movement, 30-minute "Symphony Seven," commissioned by four American orchestras and performed only once before, at its world premiere by the Toledo Symphony in Ohio in March 1999.

A year before the Games, at the world championships in Tokyo, Christie finished fourth in the 100m final behind the double Olympic champion Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell.

She also dismissed suggestions that she might not go, pointing out that she had similar problems before finishing fifth at the world championships two years ago.

Gay, having shrugged off long-standing injury worries, said consistently recording fast times after so many years of frustration was key before a 100m at the world championships in Moscow that is shaping up to be an epic clash.