Sentence examples for instead of before from inspiring English sources

Final exams were after the vacation, instead of before.

"It's a green room after a performance instead of before one," said Geoff Ogilvy, the 2006 United States Open champion.

"Basically, I started to love trying things," Wie said, "instead of before, I was scared of trying new things".

Some can't understand why Americans insist on doing things on the weekend instead of at it, some rail at ahead of instead of before, and certain individuals (ahem) are rendered apoplectic by the journalistic abuse of amid.

The warrant was issued as an auxiliary process to compel him to give the testimony sought by the subpoenas; and its nature in this respect is not affected by the direction that his testimony be given at the bar of the Senate, instead of before the committee.

If you're an election administrator, that's your day in hell, when there's a huge policy change right before an election, with everyone looking, instead of before a little election, so you can refine your training materials and figure out how to implement the new policy.

Can we as individual programs focus on giving before getting instead of getting before giving?

It shows that, on average, 2.37 (instead of 2.76 before adjustment) times of bits is required by the conventional modes and, on average, 0.95 (instead of 0.89 before adjustment) for the MSE ratio is generated by the other modes compared to the pattern mode.

Instead of testifying before the grand jury, Hincapie cooperated and gave sworn statements.

"We end up spending billions of dollars after, instead of millions before".

The factory requires 16 workers on a shift, instead of 103 before it was automated.