Sentence examples for before surging from inspiring English sources

Referees and players adjusted, and the number dropped to 61 in 2007 and 55 in 2008, before surging again last year, when replacement referees worked the preseason.

California scored a run in the third before surging ahead in the fourth.

If industry cannot restore its power before surging summer demand, lost production could cost Japan global market share.

Bike sales hovered around 600,000 annually for most of the 2000s before surging to 1.3 million in 2008.

Indeed, in the wee hours of Friday, consumers pulled folded pieces of paper from their pockets before surging into stores.

After reaching the World Series in 2000, the Mets struggled for most of the 2001 season before surging to finish 82-80.

As I've said before, "the surge is working" is working -- not the actual surge but the phrase "the surge is working," which has become accepted conventional wisdom.

The far right has surged before, only to fall back in later elections.

Mr. Pawlenty, you will remember, left the Republican nomination fight in August, before surge after surge (after surge after surge) swept through the field.

Moffatt was the first to fall back before surges from Hewitt and Findlay proved too much for Jenkins.

(The year before, submissions surged 6 percent).