Sentence examples for just years before from inspiring English sources

The early two-thousands were littered with mea culpas and about-faces from prominent Democrats who, just years before, had taken strong stances against immigration.

"His unstinting work to negotiate a peace settlement in Northern Ireland has brought a stability to the area that just years before no one would have thought possible.

Mr. Trimble won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1998, but just years before he was making his mark by acting rude, truculent and spiteful, his occasional smiles tight, joyless and disdainful.

The authority formed a symphony orchestra in 1971, just years before the city's near-bankruptcy threw its government liberalism into national disrepute, and went on to create an acting program in collaboration with the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in 1982 and a youth chorus in 1997.

Just two years before, the group had paid only $3,800 an acre for the land.

Just two years before, I worried so much that I started to do Nixon.

Just five years before, India had more than half the world's polio cases.

Just 20 years before, the iron grip on that empire seemed unshakeable, as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968.

The writer was describing a doughnut machine that had been created just eleven years before, by an inventor named Adolph Levitt.

Just 2 years before, I had left academia where I had been a postdoc working on geologic projects in Namibia and Tibet.

In some areas of the country, just fifty years before, slavery had been legal.