Sentence examples for before it becomes common from inspiring English sources

It seemed that natural selection has weeded out any disease-causing mutation before it becomes common.

Most of the evidence comes from a string of Thurmond speeches showing that he framed his vision before it became common fare.

He played with four teams in the 1990s before it became common for international players to join the N.B.A. Ginobili then perfected and popularized the move.

Men may have been selecting for intelligence to some extent before it became common for women to be primary breadwinners, but they were likely as focused or more focused on other characteristics.

One of the first bands to see the potential of the internet to bypass the fashion-driven media, they pioneered crowdfunding of albums a full decade before it became common practice.

Waxing tongue in cheek about "the perils inherent in everybody's suddenly eating everything" (he cites a newspaper article about the precipitous rise nationwide in bagel-related injuries), Trillin longs for the days of "preglobalized eating," wistful for a time "before it became common to find Cajun restaurants in upper Midwestern shopping malls and lobster shacks in Amarillo".

Cage's pieces were inspired by technology and his vision of the future, and called for percussion instruments as well as phonographs and amplifiers; his 1939 work is often cited as one of the first examples of the electro-acoustic music (he called for various recordings to be played during the piece, including his own, foreshadowing sampling long before it became common practice).

"Then it became common knowledge, months before the official announcement, that I was going to win the Pulitzer poetry prize as well".

He later headed a commission on the euro in the years before it became the common currency.

Even before it became a common place to assume that "the Eskimo have a hundred words for snow" the languages of hunting and gathering people have played an important role in debates about linguistic relativity concerning geographical ontologies.

Debate continues on the effectiveness of maintenance therapy in gastric cancer and further investigations are required before this becomes common practice.