Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 2 | With only six weeks to run before the 1987 general election , the NIREX plans were unceremoniously junked . |
| 3 | Look , there 's three minutes to go before the news . |
| 4 | Lamb said : ‘ There is still three weeks to go before the team leaves and we will monitor events very carefully between now and then . |
| 5 | The South Africans will have only three days to acclimatise before the opening one-day match at Sabina Park next Tuesday . |
| 6 | Even though they still have three years to go before the BIS deadline , Japan 's five leading city banks ( Dai-Ichi Kangyo , Sumitomo , Fuji , Mitsubishi and Sanwa ) have all cleared the 8% hurdle . |
| 7 | Oxfordshire in 1962 still had ten years to wait before the reorganization of local government which followed the Royal Commission on that subject chaired by Lord Redcliffe-Maud ( John Maud ) . |
| 8 | Only 44 , and with 16 years to go before the official NatWest retiring age , this is , he agrees , unlikely to be his last job . |
| 9 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 10 | One step to go before the final great switch on of your tank . |
| 11 | ‘ Two weeks to go before the competition , ’ said Mr Gordon one evening . |
| 12 | Two days to go before the first home game of the season . |
| 13 | In the 52nd minute England had two chances to clear before the second-half substitute Qamar Ibrahim scored . |
| 14 | Okay er we move on over six seven minutes to go before the end of the programme . |