Sentence examples for before if only from inspiring English sources

England have won in South Africa before, if only once since the country's re-entry to international sport nearly a quarter of a century ago.

"Sometimes the veil parts, and the children are able to speak and play more normally and use words that didn't seem to be there before, if only for a short time during a fever or other stress" says Robert Naviaux, a geneticist at the University of California, San Diego, who specializes in metabolic disorders.

As someone with a keen interest in futurology, cryonics is an area he's looked into before, if only out of mild curiosity.

And I had used the Romantics before, if only to counterpoint the vinyl upholstery in intimate automotive liaisons.

The game would have been over long before if only Collins had said "no" when Harvey demanded to stay in the game.

You should definitely have worn this outfit before, if only to get comfortable in it.

O'Dowd added that he believes that the attorney general's office had conducted a review several years ago, which made it slightly surprising that the legislation had not been amended before this, "if only as a precaution".

Consequently, Thiel likes to invest in startup teams that have worked together before, even if only on college projects.

Her casting caused an internet ripple because she is African American, as though Hollywood hasn't wilfully changed characters' race before, or as if only redheads were allowed to be wards of the state.

iTunes 11 is, on the whole, better than what came before it — if only because it's faster, far less cluttered and laid out more sensibly.

As a player who is honest with himself, Bay would readily enumerate the times he had been booed before then, if only he could recall them.