Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 2 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |
| 3 | No-one ever spends much time thinking about the longest holiday of their lifetime — retirement — until a few years before the big day actually arrives . |
| 4 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 5 | The date of an election is now known until a few weeks before the event , when the prime minister recommends a dissolution of Parliament to the Queen . |
| 6 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 7 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |