Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] before the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |
| 2 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact it was rather like the dark days just before the last election when prime-time television was regularly disturbed by party political broadcasts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 7 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 8 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 9 | In the period immediately before the First War , the growing political militancy of the Women 's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) , along with the publication of feminist books and pamphlets on sexuality , radicalized the older , more traditional women 's organizations . |
| 10 | The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland . |
| 11 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 12 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 13 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 14 | In addition , the Board of Inland Revenue must be indemnified by the people who were partners immediately before the first change , and by anyone joining the partnership on that or a later change , against any loss of tax arising on a partner 's claim that the election does not strictly comply with the provisions of s 113(2) and that the cessation basis should have been applied . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There were derisory calls of a similar kind from the crowd long before the eighth round on Thursday as the fighters went to their corners after another three minutes of little more than dancing . |
| 17 | Sadly , my father had to find work in the Gulf just before the last war and died out there when I was three years old . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 19 | Later readers were often puzzled by the references to ‘ stations ’ at a time long before the first arrival of the railway in Cumbria . |
| 20 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |