Example sentences of "[adv] before the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | and , who work in Risley 's Effluent Plant Projects Office , were quick off the mark in the second race and were back in the boat house long before the second boat , crewed by and , had completed the required four laps . |
| 2 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 3 | During the 1880s and 1890s , the miller was Francis William Giles , by 1914 it was in the hands of James Faulks and between 1927 up to shortly before the Second World War , William George Perry . |
| 4 | Shortly before the second anniversary of her wedding Mrs Tristan Gage suffered a miscarriage which kept her in bed for several cosseted days surrounded by every possible luxury and attention , including the embarrassed affection of her husband who had rather more idea how mares and hound bitches might feel at such moments than women , and the deep concern of her mother who , throughout her own twenty-six years of marriage had herself miscarried eight times . |
| 5 | He had been a deputy in parliament for the Swiss Party of Labour from 1944 , when it was founded , to 1986 , having represented the Communist Party from 1936 until it was banned shortly before the Second World War . |
| 6 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 7 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 8 | The violently anti-modernist spirit lived on , however , and just before the Second World War found expression in a thirteen volume , wholly uncritical commentary on the Old Testament by an Italian priest , Dolindo Ruotolo . |
| 9 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 10 | The rural population , as defined in the census , fell from a peak of 9.1 million in 1861 to a low of 7.3 million just before the Second World War . |
| 11 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |
| 12 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 13 | And of course , all of the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , told ‘ at the charge room desk ’ were passed on to me by a series of venerable ‘ real polises ’ , who , in turn , had learned these structures of significance in their own formative years , often before the Second World War . |
| 14 | Even before the Second World War the planning problems resulting from population growth in southern Britain were apparent . |
| 15 | Even before the Second World War births were increasing again : imperceptibly in France ( Ogden and Huss 1982 ) , slowly in Britain from 1933 , and most dramatically in Germany . |
| 16 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |
| 17 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 18 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 19 | Proposals for a maximum carcase weight of 380kg , which was more than likely to be introduced this July , could mean heavier animals having to be marketed earlier before the second qualifying period . |