1.   About half an hour before the performance, the theatre starts to fill up.

2.   Bargain hunters queued for hours before the store opened.

3.   Even in these grey hours before dawn, he continued her master.

4.   He had been at the pub for several hours before getting into a fight with another man.

5.   In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges.

6.   In the last hour before the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the courtyards and rooftops were filling with people.

7.   Leave for half an hour before rinsing with tepid water.

8.   Let sit for several hours before serving over chopped or sliced pork shoulder.

9.   Negotiators in Geneva reached their final agreement just hours before the midnight deadline.

10.   The following day we could knock it off in few hours before returning to base.