Sentence examples for shortly before this from inspiring English sources

Shortly before this happened, El Mañana's morning paper led with a story on drug cartel violence.

Shortly before this, the Sydney organisers had been forced to cut their budget once again because of a revenue shortfall.

Shortly before this, Ross's main supervisor, whom he describes as a "fantastic" professor, left the school voluntarily.

Shortly before this article was published, however, Rath began to place a series of lengthy letters to the editor of The New Yorker on his main Web site.

Shortly before this, in Paris, Trotsky had met and married Natalya Sedova, by whom he subsequently had two sons, Lev and Sergey.

Shortly before this he had quit as chairman of Zurich, a Swiss insurer, whose chief financial officer had committed suicide, leaving a note berating Mr Ackermann.

Socialcam, the 'Instagram for Video' that launched shortly before this year's SXSW, has crossed a major milestone this week: it's now been downloaded 2 million times across iOS and Android devices since it launched six months ago.

No one illustrated that more, perhaps, than Mr. Fortuyn, the Dutch politician assassinated shortly before this week's elections.

Shortly before this fall's election, the Legislature's slender Democratic majority adopted revisions that provided for no further tax increase.

"He's given Park Avenue 50 great years," she said the other day, shortly before this year's tulip crop made its appearance.

But a proposed pact with Australia is behind schedule, prompting Indonesia to announce shortly before this week's summit that it was exploring a bilateral trade deal.