Example sentences of "prior to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time . |
| 2 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 3 | It is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time . |
| 4 | The respondent did not however consult a solicitor until March 1990 and prior to that time did not carry out , or arrange for the carrying out of , any investigations . |
| 5 | I would hope we can fix meetings prior to that time . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) Every recognition granted under these Rules shall , subject to paragraph ( 2 ) of this Rule , remain in force until the end of the third 31st May next after that recognition is granted except where prior to that time the recognition expires under Rule 9 or is revoked . |
| 7 | The old rule was that requisitions on title were dealt with after contracts had been exchanged , and that prior to that time the questions were to be of a practical nature , as per the form of preliminary enquiries . |
| 8 | Prior to this time it had to travel in cask and the resultant ‘ sparkling ’ wine must have been a sorry product , hardly an advertisement for its quality and reputation . |
| 9 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 10 | Regional policy did not emerge in the EC until 1975 , but nevertheless , prior to this time there was embodied in the Treaty of Rome an implicit concern for regional disparities . |