Sentence examples for before the contraction from inspiring English sources

In the current and past two recessions, interest rates never got very high and the Fed actually began to lower them before the contraction began.

A downward flow is shown to form just before the contraction and is followed by an upward flow.

When the cluster structure diminishes as q decreases, the walking agents quickly spread to the whole graph before the contraction dominates.

A simple model suggests that the ratio of the maximal displacement during the contraction (m) to the aspirated length before the contraction (L[300]) would be independent of the applied pressure (Supplemental Text S1, part 6.2).

Anyway, we got to the hospital around 10 30, before the contractions got much worse.

Sedatives are used only in the early stages of labour to help the woman relax and rest before the contractions of active labour begin.

Twice this week we've been sure our third child was arriving, and spent a night at the hospital before the contractions faded away and we sloped off home to wait some more.

We were swimming around in the dark womb before the contractions started ramping up.

There's evidence aplenty that we are less joiners than before – witness the contraction of trade union membership.

Analysts say it could expand even more in the months ahead, before undergoing the contraction that inevitably takes place after Labor Day, as the campaigns take stock of where they stand for the remaining 60 days of the contest.

In two goats that were ruminating during examination, a triphasic contraction pattern, analogous to that seen in cattle, was recorded; immediately before the biphasic contraction, a rejection contraction [ 13] was observed, which served to propel food into the oesophagus.