Sentence examples for before its advent from inspiring English sources

Only Part D scared me, because my mother died before its advent and I had no experience helping someone else with this.

Before its advent, the history of the art form was mediated through the highly coloured accounts of critics or the stylised images of painters.

Before its advent, researchers often used maize, but maize has a long life cycle and a large genome, limiting its utility.

Huxley wrote before the pill, but its advent brought his imagined sexual free-for-all a few steps closer.

BEFORE the advent of affordable helicopter rides, a backcountry ski trip was primitive.

Stir-Up Sunday falls on the last Sunday before the advent, and its routes can be traced to a bible passage reading: "Stir up; we beseech thee, O Lord".

Artnet has long been known as the Bloomberg terminal of the auction business; it made its name even before the advent of the Web by building a database of historical auction prices that now numbers in the millions, on which collectors, dealers and auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's rely.

Sometimes, he wonders how the neighborhood got its shopping done before the advent of the red plastic bag.

It was skiing at its most bare-bones, before the advent of the high-speed quad.

Dickens put a name to it, long before the advent of social media.

It was founded by merchants and clerks in 1820, "before the advent of the public library," according to its official history, and its current building dates to 1932.