Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 2 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
| 3 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 4 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 5 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 6 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 7 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 8 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 9 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 10 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 11 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 12 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 13 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 14 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 15 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 16 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 17 | ‘ Just a few things before we start out . |
| 18 | Our grief at his passing , just a few days before we could celebrate with him his eightieth birthday , is only diminished by the knowledge that he left us knowing that the fruits of his inspired leadership and labours are imperishable . |
| 19 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 20 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 21 | Police released a video of the victim 's last Christmas , just a few days before he died … detectives visited every home in Russells Water … the village pond was searched by police frogmen … mounted police were brought in to search the grounds of a nearby National Trust property . |
| 22 | Just a few days before he was due to start the second year of his course , his body was discovered by fire crews in the remains of a barn fire . |
| 23 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 24 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 25 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 26 | Like a few months before you get your provisional and while you 're working you can save the rest of your money , like you 're . |