"b4" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 77 and 167:",
          "text": "gotta be back b4 joey gets here[…]let’s get 2gether again b4 julian comes, ok?",
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          "ref": "2004, Paul Howard, PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids, The O’Brien Press, published 2012, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Was in Orphas room 2nite readin her diary again. 4got sum of it from b4.",
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          "ref": "2009, Tara Chace, transl., Are U 4 Real?, Dial Books, translation of original by Sara Kadefors, →ISBN:",
          "text": "imagine if i die b4 i figure it out!",
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          "ref": "2010, Jessica Burkhart, Elite Ambition, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hope 2 run into u 2day b4 I talk 2 Callie.",
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          "ref": "2011, Geraldine Bloustien, Margaret Peters, Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 215:",
          "text": "All drinks £2.50 b4 11pm.",
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          "ref": "2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, The University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, pages 203–209:",
          "text": "it also seems a lil hippo-criticl gvn youv been ritin a blog abt her and yer life as a gr8t artst & a muther snc b4 she wuz born.[…]i wuz just reedn wut i rote 2 u b4.[…]thar was 1 lil grrl w/curli brown hair like mine b4 i got it str8nd at sefora.[…]moms used to babysit wen she wuz my age but that wuz a long time ago b4 9-11[…]hes gonna cum in just 3 hours b4 moms gets up & im gonna meet him down the street so that she duznt heer his car.",
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          "ref": "2018, Douglas Rees, Elektra’s Adventures in Tragedy, Running Press Teens, Perseus Books:",
          "text": "Yesterday. No, day b4.",
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          "ref": "2019, Brett Wirebaugh, Half-Tail Rising, Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "wen they r evacuating b4 the 14th",
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          "ref": "2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 77 and 167:",
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          "ref": "2004, Paul Howard, PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids, The O’Brien Press, published 2012, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "imagine if i die b4 i figure it out!",
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          "ref": "2011, Geraldine Bloustien, Margaret Peters, Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 215:",
          "text": "All drinks £2.50 b4 11pm.",
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          "ref": "2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, The University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, pages 203–209:",
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          "text": "Yesterday. No, day b4.",
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