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before degree vs before the degree

Both 'before degree' and 'before the degree' are not correct phrases in English. The correct way to express this idea would be 'before obtaining the degree.'

Last updated: March 25, 2024 • 615 views

before degree

This phrase is not correct in English.

Instead of 'before degree,' you should use 'before obtaining the degree.'
  • Getting yourself expelled just before the degree.
  • Got my bachelor's degree before I was even old enough to vote.
  • Whether a food was used for human consumption to a significant degree before 15 May 1997, should be based on information available in the Member States.
  • It's a four-year degree before you even take your first vows.
  • Before receiving the First Degree... of the Seventh Old Ray... your mind must be white and blank.
  • It also advises on associated subjects such as novel foods (foods or ingredients which have not been consumed in the EU to a significant degree before 15 May 1997).
  • Consequently, the period of data protection under one authorisation could have elapsed to a significant degree before the data protection period of the related authorisation starts.
  • If you have competing states with different employment policies and different social policies, you can regulate your employment market only to a certain degree before the jobs start crossing your borders.
  • Sixty-grand, total, before I get my degree.
  • Firstly, we can speak of new cohesion, and the funds are being spent to a greater degree than before on regions and cities, on the Lisbon Strategy, on growth and jobs.
  • She was a paralegal before she completed her online law degree.
  • Dirac continued his visual training, doing a degree in engineering before go to Cambridge to study mathematics.
  • Deb before not having a law degree...
  • Now, as before, we need to ensure a high degree of safety.
  • I can't even pay for school and finish my degree which is what I was doing in the first place before I got dragged down here on spring break.
  • Before I joined the marshals, I got a degree from the Naval School of Computer Science.
  • Redness and the degree of dermatitis on Olivia's knees suggests she was here right before she was murdered.
  • I went up before the war, got my degree and came back talking like a bishop, as he used to say.
  • Such a degree of transparency has never been achieved before
  • In a while we'll take you through a 180-degree turn like we did before.

Alternatives:

  • before obtaining the degree

before the degree

This phrase is not correct in English.

Instead of 'before the degree,' you should use 'before obtaining the degree.'
  • Getting yourself expelled just before the degree.
  • Before receiving the First Degree... of the Seventh Old Ray... your mind must be white and blank.
  • Consequently, the period of data protection under one authorisation could have elapsed to a significant degree before the data protection period of the related authorisation starts.
  • If you have competing states with different employment policies and different social policies, you can regulate your employment market only to a certain degree before the jobs start crossing your borders.
  • Got my bachelor's degree before I was even old enough to vote.
  • Whether a food was used for human consumption to a significant degree before 15 May 1997, should be based on information available in the Member States.
  • It's a four-year degree before you even take your first vows.
  • It also advises on associated subjects such as novel foods (foods or ingredients which have not been consumed in the EU to a significant degree before 15 May 1997).
  • I recognise before the House that in some cases the degree of the Commission's ambition has not been matched by the Council.
  • Before the expiry of this Financial Protocol, the Parties shall assess the degree of realisation of commitments and disbursements.
  • Before the expiry of the 9th EDF, the Member States shall assess the degree of realisation of commitments and disbursements.
  • Sixty-grand, total, before I get my degree.
  • In accordance with Articles 2 and 34 of the Internal Agreement, the Member States shall assess the degree to which commitments and disbursements have been carried out before the expiry of the EDF.
  • It says it believes that because of the degree of uncertainty inherent in any statistical method and because it will be some years before the DASS has required sufficient maturity, the Court's findings must be interpreted with caution.
  • Firstly, we can speak of new cohesion, and the funds are being spent to a greater degree than before on regions and cities, on the Lisbon Strategy, on growth and jobs.
  • Before the expiry of the 9th EDF, the Member States shall, in accordance with paragraph 7 of the Financial Protocol of the ACP-EC Agreement, together with the ACP States assess the degree of realisation of commitments and disbursements.
  • Stresses the importance of a final, in-depth assessment of the current state of play a few weeks before the changeover to the euro, whose success will have a direct impact on the credibility of the EU institutions as a result of the degree of citizens' confidence;
  • Redness and the degree of dermatitis on Olivia's knees suggests she was here right before she was murdered.
  • The Commission shall publish this average Community share defining the degree of market opening in the Official Journal of the European Communities before November each year, with all appropriate information clarifying the calculation.
  • taking into account the degree of non-compliance and the quantities of non-complying products placed on the Community market before being prohibited by a Member State.

Alternatives:

  • before obtaining the degree

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