31.   Almost all of the decline occurred before the law passed last summer.

32.   All of this occurs before the opening credits.

33.   All four trips to the East occur before mid-November, so the Raiders should avoid frigid weather.

34.   But a television industry official said on Wednesday that bidding on future television rights will not occur before the end of the year.

35.   But almost all of the drop occurred before crack cocaine or the laws passed in response to it.

36.   But company officials say past leakage problems occurred before recent scientific advances in radioactive waste management.

37.   But the real damage occurred long before that.

38.   But some Cuba watchers and dissidents on the island say changes had begun to occur even before the pope announced his decision to go a year ago.

39.   But why punish him for a programming shortcut that occurred before his birth?