Sentence examples for only years before from inspiring English sources

In Presley's wake, the music of black singers such as Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley, who might have been considered rhythm-and-blues artists only years before, fit alongside the rockabilly-flavoured tunes of white performers such as Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, and Jerry Lee Lewis, in part because they were all now addressing the same audience: teenagers.

The latter succeeded his father only years before, in 1187, and appears to have capitalised upon the infighting amongst the meic Somairle, and possibly even the downfall of Ragnall himself.

I could just say that the reason for this shift was my own parents' separation, only years before my father's death.

He wasn't working there on 9/11, but the fact that he had been in the building only years before brought the tragedy home to Muskelunge Township.

Only two years before, in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Having immigrated only two years before, he was at 28 already a leader in the emerging territory.

Only 50 years before, passenger pigeons flew in flocks of millions across the forests of the eastern US and Canada.

Only four years before, in dry, sunny conditions with the temperature above average, the turnout was 71.4%.

a And so the text reads; but Lee entered the army when he became a cadet in 1825 — only 28 years before, not 40.

Only a few years before, political interviewers had been politely deferential.

A bankrupt chair maker only a few years before, Tweed occupied a stunning Manhattan mansion.