Sentence examples for before professional from inspiring English sources

Johnson was figuring on-base percentage, manually, years before professional statisticians.

In those days before professional track, runners held full-time jobs.

But seriously, folks, it'll be a very long time before professional soccer has the kind of oomph that baseball, basketball, and football have.

Cuba, which had produced many excellent professional boxers before professional sports were banned by Fidel Castro's government, became a dominating force in international amateur boxing.

The moment she touches him, a current is sparked, and it is only a matter of time before professional caresses evolve into passionate kisses.

Long before professional sports became a part of Seattle's cultural fabric, the University of Washington was the focus of sports spectatorship in the city, and the school's teams continue to command the avid loyalty of Seattleites.

To require the DIBP to grant permission before professionals are allowed to report DIBP's inadequate institutional responses restricts accountability and places children at risk of continued harm.

Never before has professional talent been easier to scope out and contact.

What's more, amateur astronomers actually make significant contributions to the study of astronomy, and amateurs have discovered stars, comets, and other phenomena before professionals.

This has happened before in professional sports, with the Miami Dolphins after their founder, Joe Robbie, died in 1990.

Mr. Blake, a Fairfield resident, played for Harvard before turning professional.