Sentence examples for mainly before from inspiring English sources

Tests are conducted mainly before events and lack the surprise element of unannounced tests given out of competition, wherever the wrestlers might be.

The Coast of Utopia, set mainly before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, depicts Russian intellectuals washed up as refugees in England after the 1848 revolutions across Europe, divided between revolution and peaceful change.

Earlier this month the retail banking division she oversees paid a record £28 million fine for operating a toxic culture of aggressive selling, although the historical practices took place mainly before her arrival.

And at all of his public appearances during his latest visit, mainly before educators and activists, he made his positions on war and peace, the need to end the occupation, and the need for freedom and peace for both Israelis and Palestinians very clear.

But a surge in investment – mainly before June 2014, when the global price of oil stood at a heady $115 – has, for now, borne fruit: provisional figures have shown a 3% increase in output from the UK continental shelf in the first six months of the year.

Frank P. Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, a landlord group, said that the report was irrelevant because it relied on data collected mainly before the current law went into effect and included reports of low and moderate levels of exposure.

With several event risks in the form of two central bank meetings, and with the ever-publicised US non-farm payrolls data later this week, equity markets are mainly consolidating before deciding on the next move.

Study types of the included manuscripts were: 16 (17%) intervention studies, mainly before-after studies with only five randomised trials; 38 (41%) longitudinal studies; 26 (28%) cross sectional studies; and 12 (13%) studies of other types (mainly diagnostic studies).

Regular trans-Atlantic passenger service had in fact been inaugurated only three years before, mainly because of the threat posed to merchant vessels by Nazi U-boats.

Spotify really is unlike pretty much any streaming service you've tried before, mainly because tracks start to play almost instantly due to the P2P technology employed.

Golf has come up before, mainly because tennis has gotten in, and the two sports are sort of joined in the public consciousness.