Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adj] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 2 | If impressing less as a ‘ big ’ personality she nevertheless has a vivid way of making the developments real and present : for example , at the start of the Act 2 solo , ‘ que viens-je d'entendre ? ’ , she conveys , still more than Baker , the sense of the overheard talk having happened a minute or two before . |
| 3 | I had been reading in Shelvocke 's Voyages , a day or two before , that , while doubling Cape Horn , they frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude , the largest sort of sea-fowl … |
| 4 | " It 's a good thing Rossmayne is strong , " said Amsterdam , still very troubled by the dark emotions which had been unleashed a night or two before . |
| 5 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 6 | I think it is most likely that the Course will be completed by then but because they have to have their final papers in , the week or two before , it may be that they will be staying on to around that time . |
| 7 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |
| 8 | The frailty of human memory is such that it is by no means uncommon for a delegate to criticize fiercely the very rule for which he himself was responsible a year or two before ! |
| 9 | Craft villages were very different in character from their predecessors of a century or two before , and the new settlements which were dominated by a single workplace and where even the houses and public buildings were owned by the ironmaster , millowner or colliery company had no antecedents in an earlier age . |