before midnight

The game wasn't over in the East until minutes before midnight.

He got us away just before midnight and by then.

Both were expected to be in place before midnight, he said.

And thanks to the time difference, we could still be in bed before midnight.

When they came back, just before midnight, the job was done.

And that's just before midnight, when the party really gets going.

It was by now only an hour or two before midnight.

Most of them had some special reason for being back in Chicago before midnight.

Both sides wanted to get a deal done before midnight tonight.

He left the house about nine and came back before midnight.