Sentence examples for now long before from inspiring English sources

They are teammates now, long before they pray together after the game.

Even now, long before Senate campaigns have intensified, voters know where the candidates stand on health care.

Still, more than other magazines and newspapers, the Voice was doing what the Internet does now long before there was an Internet.

"I've known Kofi for many years now, long before he was the secretary general," said Mr. Biden, a frequent visitor to United Nations headquarters.

One minute he is deep in abstract thought about time ("It's the past, and it isn't. It's forever. And it isn't") or contemplating Steeplebush (which "flourished by some other name, lost now, long before there were steeples").

For a couple of centuries now, long before Intrade or even the Internet existed, financial markets have been making it easier to bet on what the future will bring.

"I said, 'O.K., now how long before three?' " O.K., what did he do when he learned he'd won three?

With half of the Arctic's summer sea ice now gone, how long before open water will prevail there the year around?

For me, education on FGM began long before now, but we are seeing major changes; headteachers are now putting children and communities first.

Without it, village officials say, Goshen would have run out of water long before now.

Professor John Howson, of Oxford University, says this crisis should have been dealt with long before now.