Sentence examples for years before from inspiring English sources

The phrase "years before" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a period of time in the past. For example, "She had visited the same spot 10 years before."

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Two years before, José had been ambushed.

This time period does not include the four years before the 2011 earthquake and the years before 1993.

Years before marriage are indicated by negative values, hence −5 means five years before marriage.

But years before that, he….

Noel, twenty-five years before.

The allegation had been reported years before.

He had caused me problems years before.

"But it happened four years before that".

These problems were recognized years before Katrina.

But he said it 25 years before.

I had moved away many years before.

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