Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 2 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 3 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
| 4 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 5 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
| 6 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 7 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 8 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 9 | Just a few days before the festival begins , they 're adding the final touches to the stage . |
| 10 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |