Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] before [pron] " in BNC.

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1 That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence .
2 Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it .
3 Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins .
4 The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed .
5 And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you .
6 We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work .
7 Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better .
8 His memoir of those days on page 138 , sheds light on the star of Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets ' Society before he was claimed by fame and fortune .
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