Sentence examples for before the lapse from inspiring English sources

The arrival of a raindrop allows one to make no prediction of when the next will arrive; the best one can hope for is a statement that there is half a chance that the next will arrive before the lapse of a certain time.

If the coda amplitude reached twice the noise level for each frequency band before the lapse time of 30 s, the end of the time window was set to the time when the amplitude reached twice the noise level.

The bill will do nothing for people who exhausted all 99 weeks available in some states before the lapse took effect.

The redenomination (codenamed Operation Sunrise) was heavily publicised under the banner Zero to Hero, but was also rapid and disorganised which resulted in many people being unable to convert their old Bearer cheques to new issues before the lapse date, The Reserve Bank Governor Dr. Gideon Gono said that "10 trillion (first dollars) were still out there and it had become manure".

A Member State who has terminated the close cooperation with the ECB may not enter into a new close cooperation before the lapse of three years from the date of the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the ECB decision terminating the close cooperation.

After Deadline has discussed this issue before, but the lapses keep occurring.

Illyricum was disturbed, the Gallic provinces wavering, Britain subdued and immediately let go.7 The Sarmatae and Suebi rose against us; the Dacians won fame by defeats inflicted and suffered; even the Parthians were almost roused to arms through the trickery of a pretended Nero.8 Moreover, Italy was distressed by disasters unknown before or returning after the lapse of ages.

The decision to let the case before the World Trade Organization lapse is a major step toward defusing a dispute over sanctions that has troubled trans-Atlantic relations for more than two years.

We have to think that the investor is probably already an entrenched holder of the shares from several months or weeks ago and rather than realizing gains at $5, has chosen to reserve another investor the right, but not the obligation to take his place as a CapitalSource shareholder at the fixed $5 price before the rights lapse by July 16.

It showed in his oversleeping the day before, a rare lapse for someone who took pride in never having to set an alarm.

Even before the contract lapsed, United pilots were earning slightly less than US Airways pilots.