Sentence examples for before completing the first from inspiring English sources

O'Brien's comeback was interrupted yesterday when he dropped out of the decathlon at the national outdoor championships in Berkeley, Calif., before completing the first day of competition.

Out of a typical class of 120, 65% quit before completing the first phase.

For almost all cultures, the lack of an adaptation phase or a very short one was observed: the exponential phase started before completing the first day of culture.

Furthermore, in the B-flat Sonata, Schubert sketched the finale before completing the first movement, unlike his usual practice, in which finales were conceived at a later stage.

Six patients (7%) had smoked cannabis the day before completing the first booklet.

When another activity was started concurrently before completing the first, it was deemed 'secondary'secondary

Then out of nowhere, I felt a pair of clammy hands grope my breasts before completing the second phase of the switcheroo.

He would have to wait over 20 years, through eight Oscar nominations, before completing the second leg.

Hašek planned to continue The Good Soldier Schweik to six volumes but died just before completing the fourth.

Though he died before completing the sixth, the lectures were collected under the title he chose, "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".

She was born to a poor farm family in Alabama in 1900, left school before completing the third grade and later worked as a servant and nursemaid.