Sentence examples for before the first explosion from inspiring English sources

Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about 10 minutes before the first explosion, told BFM television: "It was atrocious.

Her lights dimmed just before the first explosion, she said, and as she looked out and saw smoke, her first thought was to unplug her appliances and save her cats, Bernie, Henry and Phineas.

A criminal complaint outlining federal charges against the surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, described him as holding a cellphone in his hand in the minutes before the first explosion.

Some Marines speculated that Taliban spies — surely among the 100 or so people who voted before the first explosion — must have reported that some people were going to the polls, and they fired the rocket to derail any more voting.

In these instances, there was almost no (recorded) precursory seismicity: in 1971 the nearest seismometer on St Vincent was 30 km from the volcano, while in 1979 there were seismometers on the volcano but only low-level instrumental tremor was detected and then only in the 12 hours before the first explosion.

I was born in 1944, before the first explosion happened.

Blues had been around a long time before it became a part of the first explosion of recorded popular music in American history.

He said 64 miners and 20 rescuers were still underground nearly nine hours after the first explosion, which came just before midnight on Saturday.

The first explosion went off minutes before HDP's party leader Selahattin Demirtas was preparing speak to the crowd.

Bian Jiang, a resident of one of the nearby housing complexes, said he was asleep when the first explosion struck Wednesday shortly before midnight.

Two small explosions occurred, one at about 8 min before the onset of SAHT and the other 45 min after the first explosion.