Even with more time lost, it was all over before the last hour.

I am trying to reach that point before the last hour.

If the father died before the hour of success, the son was to go on with the task alone.

At five before the hour, he's probably in there already; time for my first walk by.

He had closed it just before the hour of nine.

It was a quarter before the hour, when the break came.

A few minutes before the appointed hour, she saw him coming.

At five minutes before the hour, the three of us left the room and crossed the road.

His step must be made before the hour of midnight.

Joe's watch showed that it was ten minutes before the hour.