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"before this period" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a period of time prior to the current one. For example, "Before this period of global lockdown, I could travel freely."
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Important progress had taken place well before this period, however.
Before this period, directing as we know it did not exist.
When I first dived there before this period the fish were largely gone.
Music written before this period, including music of the Baroque and the Renaissance, feels out of place in orchestral incarnations.
The same goes for you-you cannot move out before this period ends unless the landlord agrees.
Before this period his had been a directionless knockabout life; afterward he had a sense of determined possibility.
She was careful to buy her new phone before this period of Mercury Retrograde began in January.
Before this period they were largely segregated and ruled by different regional rulers or belonging to their respective tribes.
Before this period, interviews had been soft, bereft of research, and conducted over a table bearing a vase of flowers, in which the microphone was hidden.
Before this period in history, Hippocratic dietetics had maintained that disease was caused by excess humors (moist, hot, cold or dry) for which food could correct.
Little is known of the vessels made before this period, but it is evident from representations in pictures that they were mainly footed flasks and low beakers.
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