Example sentences of "few [noun pl] before [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a few hours before the verdict he told Central News that he believed the jury would find him not guilty . |
| 2 | The other set , belonging to Danaher , had little to smile about , even though he at least was able to , because a few hours before the kick-off he was finally ruled out of contention because of the knee ligament strain which had reduced his contribution over the eight-match tour to a couple of half-matches . |
| 3 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 4 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 5 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 6 | A few weeks before the investiture I contracted chicken pox from my grandchildren and , unfortunately , in the way that these childish ailments have with older persons , it affected me very badly . |