We're in the fourth year now, and as often happens after that long, both sides are getting a little restless.

This happened long before dawn, and she was in labour all day.

Clearly, the commodification of punk happened long before this - but does anyone know when exactly?

The process had been happening all summer long, but now it was completed.

But the earliest building we know of happened long before such decoration.

We think this happened not long after they found out about the missing antimatter.

He had it long before any of this happened.

It happened long before their time, but it shapes the conditions under which they live.

I hugged her back, wishing that this had all happened long before, in some other place.

But Ireland's transformation into a modern state happened long after his death.