Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] before the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods . |
| 2 | A fourth , less substantive , Pensions Directive is likely to emerge before the end of 1992 as Brussels makes a supreme effort , under Sir Leon Brittan 's Commissionership , to bring Freedom of Services to the financial sector by ‘ 1992 ’ . |
| 3 | A ‘ token ’ cut in interest rates of half a point to 10 p.c. was nevertheless likely to happen before the end of the month . |
| 4 | A lease might purport to be made for the duration of the war subject to the tenant 's right to determine before the end of the war . |
| 5 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 6 | ICI 's Genklene plant in Runcorn , Cheshire , is due to close before the end of 1995 . |