"I came before my time," he said, laughing, reminiscing about the story his mother has told him several times.

She acted surprised when she discovered that the decor came from a period even before my time.

Man's greatest achievement, capturing fire, came long before my time.

It no doubt comes from a century or two before your time.

Her previous demonstration, during the Kiaulune wars, had come before their time.

Even before we came to Morrowindl, years ago, long before my time, a decision was made to attempt a recovery.

His revelations have come to him before their time.

It is often said that no new thing can come before its time, and I believe it.

Maybe it was the baby, coming long before its time.

Now too I came before my time; there was a diadem put out for her higher than the one she wore every day.