Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 2 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 3 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 4 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
| 5 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 6 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |