1.   Amnesty International also intervened on her behalf and only days before she was due to leave, she was given a passport.

2.   Eventually he turned off the main drag into the sidestreets and from there it was only minutes before he reached Hesper Mews.

3.   Only before, before the summer holidays though.

4.   As an arm of U.S. foreign policy, OPIC offers insurance only before an investment is made, as an incentive for overseas development.

5.   But only days before the public stock sale, Nasdaq dropped a bomb.

6.   It was only minutes before Jim Howley was due to arrive at City Hall, and word of his accomplishment had spread quickly.

7.   Only days before, a bomb, also attributed to the group, killed four people dining in a restaurant in Khemis Miliana, also in western Algeria.

8.   The graciousness of this devout man, who only hours before had known nothing of Christmas, took me by surprise.

9.   Only hours before a federal directive requiring energy wholesalers to sell power to California was to expire, U.S. District Judge Frank Damrell kept the lights on.

10.   Opposition forces quickly moved into empty military barracks that only hours before had been in Taliban hands.