Sentence examples for five years before that from inspiring English sources

The plaintiffs, advised by a recent Yale Law graduate named Catharine MacKinnon, argued that this was a violation of Title IX — the federal statute, passed five years before, that prohibits gender discrimination in educational institutions.

After more than three grueling years as Treasury secretary — and five years before that as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — Mr. Geithner has made it clear that he will leave the administration after President Obama's first term.

I've been vegan for five years and I was vegetarian for five years before that.

Council tax arrears had fallen by 10% in the five years before that.

I had lived in New York City for 12 years, and in Philadelphia for five years before that.

Jarvis has been managing director since 2005 and was operational director at the exam board for five years before that.

He was the Yankees' pitching coach the past three seasons and worked in their farm system for five years before that.

But ownership has fallen steeply, and 27,000 fewer shared-ownership homes were built over the last five years than in the five years before that.

Steinberg devotes only a perfunctory few pages to Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president since 1999 and powerful deputy president for five years before that.

The way we interact with mobile devices did not exist in the same way five years ago – and it didn't exist in the way that it did five years ago, five years before that.

Of the 10 highest-rated animated children's shows for the last television season, only two were on the list five years earlier, and none were there five years before that.