Example sentences of "before the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 2 | Before the last Test at the Oval , Gower exhorted his troops to ‘ one last , big effort ’ to avoid completely ignominy , and for a while it seemed that they might . |
| 3 | His overall average against England is a splendid 54.97 , with almost 2,000 runs scored in 25 games ; before the last series he was even averaging 63 , although he was never one to get too bothered about statistics . |
| 4 | Nevertheless we had over 2,000,000 fewer children under 14 to care for , but 2,500,000 more people over 60 to provide for , before the last war . |
| 5 | He made good use of the opportunity , bringing his horse round the outside of two leaders on the final bends to hit the front before the last . |
| 6 | Indeed , the author recalls at the EPP Conference he attended in the Reichstag in Berlin before the last European elections , a leading German politician advocating a federal Europe in vivid emotional terms : ‘ My heart rages with passion at the thought of a Single Government and a Single Parliament ’ . |
| 7 | Involvement of the spermatic cord , epididymis , or testis by infection can lead to sterility , but , again , this complication was much more common before the last World War and is rarely seen today . |
| 8 | The ballet was not originally announced for the London season , but the company was persuaded to stay for an extra week and The Witch was premiered on 18 August the night before the last . |
| 9 | He left school before the last lesson at three , went into town for pie and chips , got stocked up with coke and doughnuts for supper and went up to Firelight 's field . |
| 10 | If he does … choose to leave his existing employment before the last minute in order to look for a new job before the rush of others competing with him comes , then that is up to him . |
| 11 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 12 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 13 | Most of them , however , left Romania before the last few years in an attempt to capitalise on what 's left of their playing careers . |
| 14 | But even before the last two matches the England management would have been reasonably content with the tour and the evidence it offered for the future development of England rugby . |
| 15 | In fact it was rather like the dark days just before the last election when prime-time television was regularly disturbed by party political broadcasts . |
| 16 | Many houses , especially those built before the last war , have no roofing felt under the roof covering . |
| 17 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 18 | So , the final batch of Computex machines were delivered during the last week of August to the Liverpool subcontractor , who promised to deliver the ZX machines on or before the last day of August . |
| 19 | Before the last cottage she paused as a woman appeared in the doorway . |
| 20 | She 'll be married to Number Three — actor Vincent Lindon — before the last autumn leaf has fallen . |
| 21 | They will cast down the kingdoms of men and dwell in the ruins before the last day dawns and Chaos swallows the world . |
| 22 | My great-grandmother preferred to begin a meal with pudding in case she ran out of steam before the last course . |
| 23 | Even before the last Albert Hall rally , Joyce and Mosley had joined the street fight . |
| 24 | In The Last Temptation , shortly before the Last Supper , the following dialogue occurs , in secret , between Jesus and Judas : |
| 25 | Not a vestige of a road formed before the last century . |
| 26 | Then just before the last of us left the island , a fisherman brought one in , lashed to the side of his canoe . |
| 27 | The problems outlined ( they are not imaginary ones ) in the paragraph before the last overlap the third group mentioned at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 28 | set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs |
| 29 | you have commas but do n't do a comma before the last so er if I said tonight I 'm going to have sausage , egg , chips , beans , tomatoes and cake . |
| 30 | Eggs so comma but all of them just before the last one . |