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"These are folks who are there from the first thing in the morning until late at night, as opposed to before, when you'd get these folks after work".
It's actually something you have to train yourself to do, to say "before" instead of "prior to". But as you say, people will say five words– "prior to the time when"– as opposed to "before". And in a way, plain English is no one's mother tongue.
I started looking at our universe as one big yes, as opposed to before, when I saw a lot of nos.
As opposed to before, when maybe we were afraid to talk to each other or throwing some kind of shade, now we're all friends and that's enhanced the experience".
"We elected to do it now, as opposed to before a playoff game.
"It's business -- as opposed to before the crisis, where was lot of fizz and bubble and not much substance".
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I don't think I've ever heard him speak, as opposed to act, before, and he sounded so like Idris Elba – the intonation, the pronunciation, the rhythm, the emphasis – that I thought perhaps he was auditioning for Luther.
Now they have a model for how to do this, where they could have been opposed to it before, but now they can evolve and say, "I don't support it.
When the data were a time series (as opposed to the before and after data available in SPI1), we used population averaged models (fitted with generalised estimating equations), incorporating hospital level random effects.
In studies that examined television viewing, only designs involving the co-occurrence of television watching and ad libitum eating were included (as opposed to eating before or after watching).
I was generally, if not passionately, opposed to it before.
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