"All applications will be considered before the auction," the agency said.

On the day before the auction, call the expert in charge.

There is often some deadline, for example, orders must be in 20 minutes before the auction.

Even before the auction the book sold to several foreign publishers.

For weeks before the auction, the event was the talk of the New York art world.

Shortly before the auction, board members heard that there were some serious competitors for the building.

The majority of the work done by an auctioneer takes place in the weeks before the auction itself.

We'll just have to watch who tries to approach you before the auction.

As a result of the conversation, a dinner meeting was set for May 20, two days before the auction.

We have to do a lot of preliminary work before the auction.