Example sentences of "[adj] year before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 2 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 3 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 4 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 5 | Golf 's popularity was putting pressure on the course because more local people played , and earlier in the day than previously , so the Artisans ' starting time was brought forward to ‘ no later than 8.30 a.m. ’ ( 30 years before it was 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 6 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 7 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 8 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 9 | no it was some years before she re-married again |
| 10 | The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available . |
| 11 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 12 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |
| 13 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |
| 14 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 15 | LEFT Fred Hoyle in 1955 , some years before he , Bond i and Gold propounded the Steady State Theory of the Universe . |
| 16 | The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form . |
| 17 | As he did so , he remembered a line which almost forty years before he had struck out of the poem at Vivien 's insistence . |
| 18 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 19 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 20 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 21 | Though he was fortunate to secure the friendship of the ruthless Ras Mikael of Tigre , who at that time dominated Abyssinia , it was three and a half years before he could leave the country . |
| 22 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 23 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 24 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 25 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 26 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 27 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 28 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 29 | It took , by her own admission , six years before she felt comfortable appearing in her starring role . |
| 30 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |