Sentence examples for but almost before from inspiring English sources
But, almost before the plates were cleared, the form of this meeting had overshadowed its content.
But almost before the gloves hit the ice, Oliwa had pounded Ray to his knees.
But almost before Clemens had inhaled, he was up again and demanding a new ball.
But almost before the echoes of the boos had faded, the Mets answered, scratching across a run in the bottom of the seventh.
I took my time hanging the feeder up, but almost before I knew it, I was squinting at labels on bird feed at the hardware store, checking species, before deciding which of the sacks to cart home.
He decided to get into showbiz after the war, but almost starved before getting a job at Oldham rep.
Still, the problems are real and should not be ignored.Cornucopia or white elephant Biotechnology has been through funding crises before, but almost everyone seems to agree that this is the worst one yet.
The American postwar track record was mixed: 250 reactors ordered, but almost half canceled before completion; costs so high that several electric companies dropped dead in the effort; fear and loathing after Three Mile Island and an intractable waste problem.
But almost six months before the Barclays Center opens its doors to the Nets, Brooklyn's first major professional sports team since the lamented Dodgers, the reality is that the Atlantic Yards project has already done the very thing that critics feared and supporters promoted: transform surrounding neighborhoods prized for their streets of tree-lined brownstones and low-key living.
But almost a year before the mayor's announcement, the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, a neighborhood group that has long advocated housing and youth programs in the neighborhoods surrounding the armory site, approached the mayor's staff with a plan to devote at least part of it to public classrooms.
According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill, "with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain", before Easter.
