Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DURING the two months or so before the first shots were fired in the Gulf , the dollar rose . |
| 2 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 3 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 4 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 5 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 6 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |
| 7 | Even when there is a will , it will be six months or more before the beneficiaries have what is due to them . |
| 8 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 9 | Probably this same crisis led to the failure of the Clun Railway before building commenced or even before the Act was passed . |
| 10 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 11 | Mr Justice Simon Brown said that shortly before the tribunal came to its decision in this case a tribunal chaired by Professor Jackson took a different approach in a similar case , Syed Jabar Hussain Shah . |
| 12 | Once we had finished our efforts and long before the paint was dry , I wheeled the barrow triumphantly off towards the market . |
| 13 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 14 | The men were always conspicuous by their absence until shortly before the pubs were due to open . |
| 15 | Francis Morgan stood and stared at them , and even before the man stepped forward steadily , hand extended , mouth opening to speak , he understood who they were and what they had come to tell him . |
| 16 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 17 | Yet among those who watched them on television screens as they did so were many who had been born before there were aeroplanes , and even before the motor-car had become a familiar object . |
| 18 | It ran right through the grapevine before the record company let on , and even before the first ads for the gig appeared in the Irish papers ( with MacGowan 's familiar mug still in the publicity shot ) , there was major consternation . |
| 19 | But there was a limit to what this small group could consume , and even before the Crash consumer spending was slowing down . |
| 20 | And even before the pit closure programme started with the increased competition that was taking place inside the mines , the increased productivity erm we 've seen a steady rise in the number of back accidents , erm you know spinal erm related accidents . |
| 21 | The mean value of the fasting samples obtained at 15 minutes and immediately before the meal was taken as the basal gastrin value . |
| 22 | The Miller , he states : and immediately before the tale commences he repeats the point : However doubtful we should be about attempts to associate the emergence of the medieval fabliau with any particular social class , it is significant that Chaucer wishes to represent the fabliau in precisely such terms . |
| 23 | Eve knew the battle had to be fought and won there and then before the other students arrived . |
| 24 | Writers had to forecast the number of pages for printing before they were written , and sometimes before the legislation had been finalised . |
| 25 | Before completing her payments and therefore before the car was hers , she sold it to B. B sold it to C , who sold it to Kingsway Motors , who in turn sold it to Butterworth . |
| 26 | But long before the narrative fell into place , before I could dress the eleven-year-old of my imagination in the clothing of the 1870s , I knew perfectly well what that child had done , and how she had felt . |
| 27 | But just before the deal was finalised , Ms Cann realised there were four more Animals of Farthing Wood titles of which she had been unaware . |
| 28 | I had planned to start on the short pole but just before the whistle sounded another boat came along . |
| 29 | The Lord 's vote had reverberations along the corridor at Westminster , a number of MP s hitherto quietly concerned about privatization now went public , they thought the Lords vote would take the sting out of the sell off because B R would win most of the bids , ministers vowed to defy the rebels , but just before the bill left the Lords the Government seemed to cave in . |
| 30 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |