At least, you would have survived it, even before modern medical science, but in a great deal of pain.
So how did it survive for a million years before the white man arrived in Africa?
What did parents do to survive before the television age?
People today have no idea how the majority of Brits survived before the welfare state.
It survived the return of male players for a few years before folding in 1954.
He survived until their final cut before the regular season.
"He did survive for a long time, before any of this."
On a humbler level, some houses survive from the period before the 1930s development.
A single illustration of the site survives from 1814, the year before its destruction.
How did you manage to survive before this happened?