Sentence examples for shortly before that from inspiring English sources

The phrase "shortly before that" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use "shortly before that" when you want to refer to something that happened just prior to a more recent event. Example sentence: I had already made the decision to move away shortly before that job offer came.

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Together with the boost provided by the enactment of the North American Free-Trade Agreement shortly before, that helped Mexico to rebound smartly from devaluation and recession.This time the United States is the problem, rather than the solution.

An interesting aside is that I approached Donald Trump shortly before that 1985 benefit, at a Democratic party fundraiser at Central Park's Tavern on the Green and asked if he'd buy a couple of tickets ($100@) to the benefit.

Our live-blog will begin shortly before that.

"They'll say, 'What do you guys have that looks like this?' " Ms. Rywelski was describing the annual shopping frenzy that takes place in America shortly before that hallowed high-school ritual, prom, customarily in May or June.

The Ibrox outfit were taken over by a consortium led by shareholder Dave King shortly before that.

"Shortly before that Michael Turner gets pushed in the box by Curtis Davies and for me that is a bigger claim for penalty than the one he's given.

Shortly before that, the restaurant Elizabeth opened across the street.

Shortly before that, Evra was whooping to all corners of the stadium.

(Alanis Morissette had a nice little run of them shortly before that).

Shortly before that election, his wife, Elizabeth, discovered she had cancer.

Max Brantley later recalled a conversation he had had with Clinton shortly before that announcement.

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