Sentence examples for before the present from inspiring English sources

Because this is a smaller number than many companies used before, the present value of the obligations will be higher.

Whereas simple shear was considered before, the present analysis describes diffusion and reaction in regions deformed by extensional flow.

The Aztec believed that four worlds had existed before the present universe.

Even before the present troubles, businessmen were meeting reluctance, sometimes hostility, especially in Egypt.

At least before the present financial crisis, the trio had been hobnobbing happily.

A scholarly article on the subject was subtitled "Women's Wear, c. 27,000 B.P". (before the present).

According to Aztec cosmology, Earth had come through four great ages, or Suns, before the present era.

'We now know that human beings learned to sail 50,000 years before the present,' he said.

People don't know where their president — before the present acting president — where he went or where he is.

And this calamity is particularly bad in Yemen, because the country was in crisis even before the present conflict.

Radiometric dating and certain other approaches are used to provide absolute chronologies in terms of years before the present.