31.   Then he recounted a personal story he must have repeated a hundred times before.

32.   Tip-top young fellow, filling in time before Cambridge.

33.   Johnson sat for the painter jour times before the portrait was finished.

34.   There was not much time before the tide turned.

35.   The blood supply bifurcates between eight and thirty times before reaching each particular location in the body.

36.   This is the claptrap that politicians have peddled many times before.

37.   They embraced one last time before going their separate ways.

38.   The judges reviewed their jottings one last time before selecting the pinot noir as the best wine of the tasting overall.

39.   Just a matter of time before the geezer pops off, and his gold digger of a wife gets the money.

40.   That evening my Chinese companion and I climbed into a chartered van to go to dinner and a show, one which I had attended many times before.