Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] two before [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is best to arrive an hour or two before the light grows dim . |
| 2 | It was only a moment or two before a couple of cars came up the hill and screeched into the side of the road . |
| 3 | Two or three maggots on a small hook lying on clean sand may only require an indication of an inch or two before the strike can be made . |
| 4 | A day or two before the crime was to take place , the Apparition of Our Lady shone forth , changing bitterness to religious awe and causing the Ribbonmen publicly to repent . |
| 5 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 6 | The conclusion is that perhaps the Magharba , in the month or two before the report appeared , may have demanded bloodwealth from the government , or ( only slightly less plausible ) from the al-Qadhadhfa — the tribe to the east of Sirte , providing the command of the garrison there . |