Example sentences of "days before the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report published just two days before the election , the Kirk 's Church and Nation Committee demands emergency action to end the ‘ waste of human resources ’ caused by unemployment . |
| 2 | We may have looked pretty silly last week , with our cover predicting Major 's disappearance , but at least we were on sale two days before the election . |
| 3 | The PBS , a BN component since 1986 , switched its allegiance to the opposition a matter of days before the election . |
| 4 | In the days before the election opposition figures as well as members of the ODT-MT had predicted that no single party would win control of the new parliament . |
| 5 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |
| 6 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 7 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 8 | There will be a number which will be the number , should be the number of days before the benefit week ending day in the first week of the claim . |
| 9 | The President , Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara , announced on Feb. 14 that presidential and legislative elections would be held on April 29 , 11 days before the expiry of his current term of office . |
| 10 | Sometimes you feel like Winston Smith in 1984 when he corners this old guy in pub and tries to find out what it was like in the days before the revolution . |
| 11 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 12 | ‘ That way there will be no complications of the sort created before our first sectional tie against Switzerland in Berne , when the absence of an England fixture meant a league game between Leeds and Manchester United being played for television 's benefit three days before the international . ’ |
| 13 | Some arms were flown from Heathrow just four days before the attack . |
| 14 | He was said to have sniffed glue during the two days before the attack at a shop in Bath . |
| 15 | Eat well , but sensibly , in the days before the race . |
| 16 | Bobby Beasley says that there were two grey horses in the yard and two days before the race , they switched the horses and the other one was doped . |
| 17 | The division was about four men to one woman , and this led to the inevitable result , in those days before The Pill — a baby boom . |
| 18 | Under commitment accounting , the manager could simply issue orders a few days before the year-end to ‘ fill up ’ the budget . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 20 | Complaints are likely to rise , even though the sound levels may be lower than they were during the relative ‘ boom ’ days before the recession . |
| 21 | His general practitioner had prescribed the hypnotic 3 days before the overdose . |
| 22 | It has to be rehearsed all together , it ca n't be done best if someone arrives two days before the performance . ’ |
| 23 | If anything , suspicions of a cover-up were reinforced by the DEA 's determination to act as counsel , judge and jury in its own cause , and nobody was much surprised when , three days before the deadline imposed by the Federal Tort Claims Act , Pan Am obtained leave from the United States District Court , Eastern Division of New York , to file a third-party liability claim against the US government in connection with the crash of Flight 103 . |
| 24 | 1.55 The summons and supporting affidavit should be served together ten clear days before the return date ( Ord 29 , r10 ) ( seven days before the hearing of the application in a county court ) . |
| 25 | The procedure in Ord 13 , r12 is the same as that in the High Court save that the summons and affidavit have to be served not less than seven days before the return date of the application . |
| 26 | Three days before the battle , James had been with his army . |
| 27 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 28 | Its existence had not been revealed to the defence even after specific requests for unused material and , days before the trial , a specific request from a solicitor for three defendants , for a copy of any video tape . |
| 29 | If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs . |
| 30 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |