We know now that 1000 years before the Phnicians began to write the Cretans had evolved a system of written characters--as yet undeciphered--and a decimal system for numbers.
At 12 that night Dewey took his squadron in column through the entrance to Manila Bay, just as he had steamed past the forts on the Mississippi with Farragut 35 years before.
The signs of the zodiac were certainly in use among the Egyptians 1722 years before Christ.
About 1250 years before Christ, the Phoenician ships ventured beyond the Straits, entered the Atlantic, and founded Cadiz.
Sesostris, who is generally supposed to have lived about 1650 years before Christ, is by most writers described as the king who first overcame the dislike of the Egyptians to the sea.
So regularly did those failures occur, that William Cobbett and other skilful agriculturists had foretold their final destruction years before.
There were people ready to tell you--years before we saw Gueldersdorp--that the one you'd got was as good as none.
Crossing the Jumna by a bridge of boats, we passed under the walls of the picturesque old fort built by the Emperor Akbar nearly 300 years before.
As this act was a violation of our treaty with Persia made three years before, Her Majesty's Government directed that an army should be sent from India to the Persian Gulf.
It may be years before I have a decent income such as would satisfy Mrs Clyde!
Some eight of us were engaged from ten to four o'clock every day, six mortal hours, in checking a lot of old accounts, and bills, that had been paid and settled years before.
The Philosophic Period, ending with the foundation of the Alexandrian library, 320 years before Christ.
The Sacred or Mystic Period, ending with the dispersion of the Pythagorean Society, 500 years before Christ.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, was born at Cos during the golden age of Greece, 460 years before Christ.
It is impossible to determine when this new colonisation took place, but it must have been much earlier than the visit of Xerxes reported by Herodotus, which took place 480 years before Christ.
Such symbols were already regarded, thousands ofyears before Christ, as religious tokens of the very greatest importance.
The whole thing is a civil war between various branches of the Roman service, and is motived, like all the Roman civil wars for hundreds of years before, by the ambitions of generals.
You will excuse me--at such a time: but it may be years before I am spared to return home, and if I can do anything in the way of looking after the grave, I shall be proud.
They had all departed from Epworth, years before, and left him, who had been their brother, alone with his miserable doubts.
Thus was established about 500 years before Christ a religion of an entirely new sort.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "years before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
