Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] [adv] before the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 5 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 6 | Why , then , should he have risked even giving the impression of having thrown his hat into the ring a full two years and more before the next election is due ? |