Examples of use of Before
1. In Africa, it may well be before independence, before the civil war, before oil.
2. It is an Afghanistan of a grander era, before the Soviets, before the mujaheddin, before the Taliban, before U.S. soldiers came looking for Osama bin Laden.
3. Even before being racked by 30 years of war, most of Afghanistan was stuck in a different time, before electricity, before TV, before tractors.
4. Or before they 50 percent displace technologies that came before.
5. The case has been before the Supreme Court before.