Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] a few [noun pl] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a perverse way , the new utopia dredged up ancient ways of doing things which capitalism a few decades earlier had threatened to abolish . |
| 2 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
| 3 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 4 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 5 | It had something of the squeals of the boar beneath our house a few hours earlier , whose execution we had paid for , but declined to witness . |