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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was exactly before" is not correct in standard written English.
It is unclear and may confuse readers, as it lacks context and clarity regarding what is being referred to as "before." Example: "The event was exactly before the meeting started."
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It was exactly before I started to attend the European Geophysical Society (later European Geosciences Union) General Assemblies, held for five years in Nice until the venue moved to Vienna in 2005.
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All was exactly as before — silent, solemn, tense.
The weather was exactly like this before we had the sever weather the year before last.
A broadcast was made on 21 February 2013, which was exactly a week before the most important parliamentary by-election of the parliament.
Not that it was exactly hurting for conductors before.
When he went back into the cabin, the girl was exactly where she'd been before.
"That was exactly what it looked like before we went into a village," he recalled.
"The logical assumption," Neidermeyer says, "is that the universe that existed before ours was exactly the same as ours.
The pretreatment evaluation was not exactly "before" the treatment.
Have you had a burning business idea for a while, but want to wait till the time is exactly right before you make your move?
Now we assume a configuration (see Figure1) similar to existing ISS techniques[10] where p is exactly known before the signal s is synthesized according to (1).
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