George Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" had its premiere in 1941, 21 years before the first curtain rose on Paul Taylor's "Aureole".
Twenty-four years before the first iPhone; 27 years before the first iPad.
It could be three more years before the first shovel goes into the ground and six years before the first occupants move in, the developer has said.
Designs and specifications are fixed years before the first vehicle rolls down the assembly line.
With Rivera, they had almost 17 years before the first major injury.
(E. okeeffeae evolved some 80 million years before the first bipedal dinosaurs appeared).
This was four years before the first 'stored program' computer, the 'Manchester Baby', was born.
It was another 10 years before the first computer made an appearance.
Mark Gertler achieved renown as a painter in the years before the first world war.
In the four years before the first ruling, Mr. Levy said, the landlord presented no comparables.
This was two years before the first death, nine years before Connor's.
