Examples of using "задолго" in a sentence and their english translations:
My grandfather had been dead for a long time when I was born.
She left here long before you arrived.
So last that we went there, I wasn't even born yet,
That was a long time before I moved to Australia.
Long before the sun rose, the birds had arrived at the feeder.
Airplanes are audible long before they are visible.
Long before there was cable or the internet or even the telephone,
I could smell the food long before entering the house.
I fell in love with Mary long before she even knew who I was.
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians.