Example sentences of "just a few [noun pl] before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just a few things before we start out . |
| 2 | Our grief at his passing , just a few days before we could celebrate with him his eightieth birthday , is only diminished by the knowledge that he left us knowing that the fruits of his inspired leadership and labours are imperishable . |
| 3 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 4 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 5 | Police released a video of the victim 's last Christmas , just a few days before he died … detectives visited every home in Russells Water … the village pond was searched by police frogmen … mounted police were brought in to search the grounds of a nearby National Trust property . |
| 6 | Just a few days before he was due to start the second year of his course , his body was discovered by fire crews in the remains of a barn fire . |
| 7 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 8 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 9 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |