Sentence examples for before the layoff from inspiring English sources

Boston Scientific's shares fell 16 cents yesterday to close at $14.14 in regular trading, which ended before the layoff announcement.

The momentum the Mets had before the layoff has carried over, first baseman Todd Zeile said, but there is a difference.

Until Brian Jordan hit a two-run home run with that one out to go Sunday, the Braves had scored 18 runs for an average of 2.57 runs a game compared to 4.46 a game before the layoff.

Employees might sue because they think the company singled people out illegally on the basis of age, sex, race or some other characteristic, or used the layoff to try to avoid paying benefits, or perhaps engaged in illegal discrimination before the layoff.

The former co-worker said that because Meredith had been thinking of switching departments before the layoff happened.

But pundits and analysts are now speculating that the current recession won't begin to recede until the second half of this year, so unfortunately it could be many months before the Layoff Tracker's numbers begin to diminish.

Romney says he left the firm before the layoffs occurred.

On the day before the layoffs were announced, the number was 13.

Many dot-commers soured on the sector even before the layoffs started.

Before the layoffs, the cost to keep Instant Messenger running was close to $25 million a year, they said.

These are people who know a little something about hard manual labor — or who used to, back before the layoffs and the charred meth labs came to town.