Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] before [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 2 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 3 | the key to the difference … lies in the family — a truth Daniel Patrick Moynihan was pilloried for stating a few years before Martin Luther King 's assassination . |
| 4 | The photos were taken at Prkos , Dalmatia , a few weeks before VE Day . |
| 5 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |