It was just before dawn, so they know they need to move quickly.

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"Ideal viewing conditions are clear skies away from city lights, especially just before dawn, " NASA officials wrote in an Eta Aquarid meteor observing guide.

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You probably read stories over the weekend about how the Senate passed a 2014 budget just before dawn on Saturday morning, a day after the House passed its version.

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It was still dark, just before dawn.

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She says that two men were killed before dawn just near where she's standing.

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The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in Kano says the Sunday evening attack on a police station in the Naibawa district, on the outskirts of Kano, happened just before the start of the dusk-to-dawn curfew.

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The laptop computer he had been carrying was confiscated for forensic analysis, but Siddique was allowed to return home before being arrested in the dawn raid on his home just five days later.

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If he rises early, it is not just to pray, but because his Internet connection will be less busy before dawn.

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Just before Thanksgiving of 2007, Sara Monopoli, her husband, Rich, and her mother, Dawn Thomas, met with Dr. Marcoux to discuss the options she had left.

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