Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] before the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 .
2 ( viii ) The prisoner may make representations to the local review committee before the first review .
3 My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur .
4 She had just walked the course and was making her way to the weighing room before the first race when she heard the familiar Bronx accent behind her .
5 In some patients , there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia .
6 London 's insurance and commodity markets , the inheritance of a century of British imperial and trade dominance before the First World War , remained the most truly international of their kind .
7 With such beliefs the Society proved receptive to both the nativist anti-semitic tradition which had been focused on the anti-alien campaign in the East End of London between 1900 and 1905 , to the Marconi scandal before the First World War , and to international influences such as the White Russian anti-semitic propaganda directed at the Bolsheviks after 1918 .
8 He worked on the family farm before the First World War ; enlisted in the army and became a captain ; and after the war sank his savings into a clothing store , and lost them when it failed .
9 ( This bank was taken over by Barclays Bank before the First War .
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