Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] before [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be taken a few hours before sleep is required in the new time zone . |
| 2 | A few days before discharge is expected , any services required are arranged and any drugs , dressings and appliances ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma equipment ) are ordered . |
| 3 | Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 . |
| 4 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 5 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 6 | In fact Carter 's style as president was probably closest to that of Woodrow Wilson who , as it happens , died a few months before Carter was born in 1924 . |