Example sentences of "only [art] few [noun pl] before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 2 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 3 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |
| 4 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 5 | In Britain , popular and media objections to the State paying for all the repairs to the fabric of Windsor castle , severely damaged by fire only a few days before the Hofburg , continued into December . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As we all know , it is a matter of only a few weeks before the joyous day when the boot will be on the other foot and the right hon. Gentleman will be sitting on the Opposition Front Bench making speeches on timetable motions . |
| 8 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 10 | The students were freed only a few months before the end of their sentences , but the move is clearly intended to polish up China 's image abroad . |