Example sentences of "[vb pp] a few [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 2 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 3 | After these reconnaissances during October , a final reconnaissance was made a few days before the invasion , by the teams going inshore one night so that each navigator could show the paddlers their canoes ' positions as navigational marks guiding in the assault waves on D-day . |
| 4 | Gerry Fitt reiterated the point about Czechoslovakia ( the Soviet invasion had occurred a few days before ) . |
| 5 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 6 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 7 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 8 | For example , in the UK the average period between the ex dividend date and payment of the dividend is fifty three days , while the dividend is announced a few weeks before the ex dividend date ( Yadav and Pope , 1992b ) . |
| 9 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |
| 10 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |
| 11 | My term had ended a few days before the start of Crispin 's leave , so we had agreed to travel up separately , and meet on Moila itself . |
| 12 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 13 | One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice . |
| 14 | The most poignant lesson , which proved to be the last , was held a few days before the wedding . |