Example sentences of "[adv] only [art] [det] [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 2 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 3 | The Office of Fair Trading 's report on the subject came out only a few days before , and Mr Blair introduced it . |
| 4 | A sudden wave of despondency washed over Robyn as her gaze drifted towards the statuette and she remembered the way she had felt up there only a few hours before . |
| 5 | My mother had died unexpectedly only a few months before . |