More than 40 of them had been her students when she was a teacher before the war.

They were used to the way things here had been before the war.

And the second fire I had was just before the last war.

But he might have said the same thing before the war.

Her husband died in 1968 before the war of 1971.

People used to come here all the time, in those days, before the war, to ask for things.

He only got started to work just about a couple of years before the war.

I needed to talk about those good times before the war.

Why were you only a little girl before the war?

Oh, but you should have seen him before the war.