Tomlinson had left his newspaper stand at Monument tube station 20 minutes earlier, shortly before 7pm.
In a House Budget Committee hearing five years earlier, shortly after Mr. Kirk arrived in Congress, he talked about his time as "a teacher, both nursery and middle school".
Four years earlier, shortly after Vance took office, he had created the Crime Strategies Unit, and prosecutors had zeroed in on West Harlem as a "violent crime hot spot".
Those were the words NASA had used 17 years earlier, shortly after the accident that doomed the shuttle Challenger and its crew.
About eight months earlier, shortly after graduating from college, I got a phone call from a student loan company about what I owed.
Ethan Lowe crossed for the visitors early, shortly after Roosters centre Dale Copley was taken off for concussion in the seventh minute and didn't return.
She had been unemployed since leaving school a few months earlier, shortly after her 16th birthday, and her mum was forever on her case: "Go and get your job, girl, go on, go and get your job".
He finished his night early, shortly after his home run helped send the Yankees to a 12-3 victoverover the Seattle Mariners and their fourth consecutive World Series appearance.
Dietrich, glittering and gorgeous, sang her darkly cynical numbers ("Want to buy some illusions, slightly used?") accompanied at the piano by the composer Friedrich Hollaender, who had written the songs for "The Blue Angel," eighteen years earlier, shortly before he, too, fled to Hollywood.
A few months earlier, shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, an English teacher at Newtown High named Lee Keylock sent McCann a letter explaining that he and a fellow teacher, Michelle Toby, had been searching, somewhat desperately, for a book that might help their students begin to make sense of their terrible shock and grief.
