Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 2 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
| 3 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 4 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 5 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 6 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 7 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 8 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 9 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 10 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 11 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 12 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 13 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 14 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 15 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |