Sentence examples for before the competitor from inspiring English sources

If the time required to switch goes above a certain value, then the incumbent will be able to take up all of N2 before the competitor can do so.

He added that it may then be awhile before the competitors catch up with Verizon.

A forerunner is a manned bobsleigh which runs down the track before the competitors begin their official training runs.

"We are presenting this complaint in such a way that the commission can take action to preserve competition and innovation in these markets before the competitors are decimated".

The British sailor caught the early wind shift, but missed out just before the competitors turned at the halfway stage, and this left him with little chance of catching up.

His fans, a number of whom had flown in from Ireland, tend to be exuberant and thirsty, and so perhaps not all of them noticed, on Friday, that Joe Rogan, the announcer, was hollering out the results almost before the competitors stepped onto the prop scale.

In 1948, when the first photo-finish camera — nicknamed the Magic Eye — was introduced to the Games, sprinters had to wait for minutes while the film was developed to see who'd crossed the line first; now the final times and places are visible to the world before the competitors have come to a halt.

Denver's two dailies continued to post circulation declines, falling further off the highs reached when a newspaper war led to penny-a-day newspaper sales and sharp -- but costly -- circulation gains just before the competitors called a truce and joined their business operations.

They awarded the fourth evangelist to Bernardo Ciuffagni before the competitors had finished.

This is why the primary race can't be shut down before the competitors round the final turn.

Earlier, after the contest had ended slightly before noon, the competitors went to a nearby pub for celebratory beers.