Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ring of gas in Supernova 1987A was not created in the explosion but ejected from the progenitor star a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 2 | Later , the star evolved into a blue supergiant , just a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 3 | The first records of the lands known as the Empire were made not by Men but by Dwarfs , over two and a half thousand years before the reign of the present Emperor Karl Franz . |
| 4 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott was ordered home to the United Kingdom that summer as beach reconnaissance was part of the Allied plans for these ‘ Torch ’ landings , but final approval for training the necessary teams was not cleared until 8 September , a mere eight weeks before the date for this invasion . |
| 5 | Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version . |
| 6 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 7 | ‘ News of the massacre of the children reached Sandweg a full two hours before the invaders . |
| 8 | Had Liverpool been playing Arsenal next Wednesday would Dalglish have ruled him out a full five days before the game ? |