Example sentences of "before the end " in BNC.

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1 From the beginning of 1992 there will also be a joining fee of £150 per hotel , but businesses joining before the end of the year avoid that .
2 Before the end of it , we rewind and just wait .
3 We very much hope to have the new materials ready before the end of 1991 — watch this space !
4 In this stubborn bent towards the hopefully open-ended ( which he lost before the end ) , Pound may legitimately seem to us more indelibly American than his fellow expatriate , Eliot .
5 The Wimbledon and United States Open champion , who will also miss next week 's grand prix tournament in Sydney and is unlikely to be fit for Tokyo the following week , has now lost any chance of overhauling Ivan Lendl as world No. 1 before the end of the year .
6 Well before the end his shirt was hanging like cling-film , his hair separating into rats ' tails , and his body movements winding down .
7 A compromise with far tighter controls over the CITES-monitored quota system is likely to be agreed before the end of the conference in two weeks ' time .
8 The failure of yesterday 's meeting to achieve even a preliminary compromise makes the prospect of a final agreement before the end of this year highly unlikely .
9 The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era .
10 GEOFFREY BOYCOTT 'S credibility as a member of Yorkshire 's general committee was dented further yesterday when he left the emergency meeting an hour before the end , writes Derek Hodgson .
11 Though the Lancia works driver lies third overall , with a repeat of his 1988 triumph at San Remo seeming beyond him when the event ends today , a place in the top three will secure his world crown two rallies before the end of the season .
12 Add together gross earnings on the eight pay-days up to and including the last pay-day before the end of the qualifying week ( QW ) and divide the total by 8 .
13 Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay-day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay-day which was at least eight weeks before that .
14 Where your employee is paid once a month but is paid in multiples of a week ( for example , on the last Friday of each month ) , add together the gross payments made on the last pay day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay day at least eight weeks before that .
15 Again , Lenin 's promise that the main aim of NEP was to restore peasant fortunes did begin to bear real fruit before the end of 1922 .
16 200 yds later , just before the end of the field , cross ditch on right by waymarker post and continue up slope ahead to reach edge of field 20 yds later .
17 But before the end of the conversation he realized how vocation pulled Ramsey towards Durham , and talked about ‘ a theological bishop ’ and did not discourage .
18 Always in the cinema , always wisecracking , often thrown out before the end of the film , but always back next time .
19 In reading it the cruelty is just about balanced by the extreme beauty of the lyrics and much of the dialogue , so that the total effect , tho ’ sinister , like a too bright dream which is sure to turn into nightmare before the end , yet is bearable .
20 They accepted it and it was swiftly published , appearing before the end of 1938 .
21 But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile .
22 But Mr Gunn said other disposals should take that total to between £400million and £500million before the end of next year .
23 If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work .
24 If there is another problem , in that the soloist seems less interested in that theme than the orchestra and prefers to go his own way , it is resolved before the end of the work .
25 Senior West German officials here last night said that the Bonn cabinet had agreed to vote with President Mitterrand and other EC leaders to fix a date before the end of next year for the special conference of EC governments to begin drawing up a new treaty .
26 A court hearing is unlikely before the end of next year .
27 Go before the end of the week .
28 I saw him in hospital a few days before the end .
29 He should not be nervous : by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys ; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights .
30 ‘ Since most experts seem to preclude a major upturn in energy prices before the end of the century , we may have to develop a combination of policies and taxes to stimulate the market for improvements in efficiency now as insurance against disruptions from climate change later . ’
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