Sentence examples for slightly before that from inspiring English sources
The phrase "slightly before that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a time or event that occurs just prior to a specified point in time or context. Example: "The meeting started slightly before that, so we missed the introduction."
While January 2006 was the only statistically significant cut-off point in our model, visually the change in rate appeared slightly before that and all cut-off dates between January 2005 and June 2006 showed a trend for a lower PTX rates.
In the diagram above, which represents a typical product development, that time occurs midway into the product development process or slightly before that time.
Traditional animation, pioneered by Disney and others in the 1920's and 30's, involves putting pencil to paper and making a series of drawings, each slightly different from the one before, that, when photographed and then projected at 24 shots per second, give the illusion that the drawn figures are alive.
When soldiers are on your street, your neighbours have begun to steal from you and plague-sufferers are camped in your drive – or perhaps slightly before all that.
5 Cool slightly before gently turning out.
Carter and Kitt got married in April 2014 and were engaged for slightly over a year before that.
Only since the police went back to work have things got slightly better, but before that we depended on ourselves when it came to protecting our properties.
We found that some patients had quit smoking due to pulmonary irritability (i.e. cough), sometimes at a date slightly before the time that they recalled the onset of TB symptoms.
He smiled slightly before he mentioned that the first group meeting was held at an Applebee's in Dalton, Ga.
And only slightly less easy to forget that they were champions two seasons before that.
That means Twitter employs slightly fewer white people than it did last year, and the year before that.
