Work on the new building began before the middle of the century, about 1444.

The process began before the 1990 play and had already gone a long way by then.

We will begin a study on this before the end of the year.

The judge said he wanted the trial to begin before the end of 2004.

The fear can begin weeks or months before an event.

Construction on the building began before the 2005-2006 school year.

Old age begins before their second century, but death can come any moment.

The next morning's march began the same as those before it.

Plans to build a new student center began before 1958.

Construction on each should begin before the end of the year, he said.

As he had begun two years before, Sos set out to find his fortune.

Breast cancer clinical trials had begun several years before, in 1990, but struggled to find patients.

The diocese was newly created, though many of the congregations had already begun more than a century before.

On the night of October 25, he died at the age of 79 following an illness that had begun just the week before.

However, in many authorities, especially the larger ones, the process of thinking about next year's budget has begun months before.

The process had begun the day before, at the scene of the crime.

It was the old quarrel about God that had begun some 40 years before.

The album, however, was only the latest step in a musical career that had begun 14 years before.

The colonel looked at his watch arid saw that the night had begun only two hours before.

It had begun the day before, the suggestion of going off on their own, hiring a car.