Sentence examples for before contracted from inspiring English sources

My only recent illness had been a bad cold two weeks before, contracted after a swim in the sea at Aldeburgh.

Since it began presenting concerts in 1987, Jazz at Lincoln Center has never before contracted Mr. Taylor or Mr. Zorn for a concert.

Fullah saw five of his family die there before contracting the disease himself.

Keenan recorded vocals for the LP before contracting a sudden illness in late December.

Finally, the study argues that there is a need before contracting out service provision to consider how the performance of private providers might change when the context within which they are working changes with the introduction of a contract.

The jelly then relaxes before contracting again.

Of those, 110 had visited countries in these regions before contracting the Zika virus: .

The royal forests grew in size for much of the 12th century, before contracting in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Burts said that, like Bay, he had only worked in the industry for a few months before contracting HIV.

He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1993 before contracting an inoperable lung cancer, which led to his death on 6 February 1999.

Beginning the tour with a duck, Kippax recovered with 89 at Leicester before contracting a heavy dose of influenza that forced him to miss the next four matches.